                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                          CHAPTER 71--OBSCENITY
 
Sec. 1469. Presumptions

    (a) In any prosecution under this chapter in which an element of the 
offense is that the matter in question was transported, shipped, or 
carried in interstate commerce, proof, by either circumstantial or 
direct evidence, that such matter was produced or manufactured in one 
State and is subsequently located in another State shall raise a 
rebuttable presumption that such matter was transported, shipped, or 
carried in interstate commerce.
    (b) In any prosecution under this chapter in which an element of the 
offense is that the matter in question was transported, shipped, or 
carried in foreign commerce, proof, by either circumstantial or direct 
evidence, that such matter was produced or manufactured outside of the 
United States and is subsequently located in the United States shall 
raise a rebuttable presumption that such matter was transported, 
shipped, or carried in foreign commerce.

(Added Pub. L. 100-690, title VII, Sec. 7521(d), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 
Stat. 4489.)
