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Charges of Importation of Child Pornography, Possession of Child Pornography, and Access Child Pornography all withdrawn prior to trial. N.K. purchased online a blow up Anime doll and two other items. Canadian Border Services intercepted the items and turned them over to Toronto Police who determined that the child size Anime doll and two other items constituted child pornography. Joseph Neuberger was retained as the defence lawyer as well as Mariya Protsenko. After careful review of case law there was no other cases involving Anime cartoon characters. Joseph Neuberger and Mariya Protsenko began research of Japanese and East Asian pop culture involving Anime characters. An expert was retained by the defence. A professor who had a Ph.d. in Asain culture reviewed the items seized and in particular the Amine doll. The premise was that this type of character is extremely popular in East Asian culture and such items are readily available for sale. Such characters are NOT representative of a child, or adult but have features of human, animal, children and adults and are not to be perceived as a child. In fact, the expert report clearly set out the Asian cultural perspective which noted the doll is not representative of a child. Joseph Neuberger conducted a number of pre-trials with the assigned Crown and argued that a western centric perspective is inappropriate to assess whether the small seized Anime doll represents a child. Trial dates were set. However, after serving the expert notice and report, as well as a psycho-sexual assessment showing that N.K. demonstrated no preferences for children and had no history of any sexual paraphilias, the Crown agreed to withdraw all charges upon the client signing a peace bond.