An accused child rapist is legally entitled to watch child pornography while being held in county jail.

We've writtenbefore on legal issues surrounding child pornography, but perhaps nothing as, well, unusual as this one.

In this case, the alleged offender, Weldon Marc Gilbert, has chosen to act as his own defense lawyer, a choice that he claims entitles him to unlimited access to all of the evidence related to the case, according to the AP.

The local Pierce County Superior Court recently ruled in Gilbert's favor, prosecutor Mark Lindquist told the Law Blog.

It just so happens that a substantial part of the case evidence that Gilbert now has access to includes nearly 30 hours worth of pornographic footage  or more than 100 DVDs worth of material  that authorities recovered from Gilberts home after his 2007 arrest, the AP reports.