Tallahassee Democrat

A 34-year-old woman facing a potential life sentence for what Tallahassee investigators say is a series of sexualized breastfeeding videos will go on trial next week.

Testimony in the trial of Leigh Felten starts on Tuesday and is slated to last two days. She faces 43 charges of capital sexual battery, promoting a sexual performance by a child, possession of child pornography and lewd and lascivious molestation.

Her attorney John Eagen contended the YouTube videos are free speech and that her constitutional rights were infringed upon when charges were brought against her. The videos are not child pornography, he said.

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In April, Leon County Judge Angela Dempsey disagreed, denying Eagen’s motion seeking to have the videos suppressed.

Felten has remained in the Leon County Detention Center since her arrest in October 2015.

In April, pornographic videos of Felten surfaced. Eagen has sought to have those videos excluded from trial believing they may taint the jury.

In June 2016, Eagen unsuccessfully petitioned to appoint a special prosecutor in the case while asking that the videos be suppressed as evidence. In October the same year, a motion to disqualify Dempsey because of her ties to the Catholic Church was also denied.

Contact Karl Etters at ketters@tallahassee.com or @KarlEtters on Twitter.