From the Salt Lake Tribune:

Utah may join efforts by the video game industry to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a California law banning the sale of violent video games to teenagers.

Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said Thursday he is talking with a number of his colleagues from other states who are working on a potential friend-of-the-court brief opposing California’s law.

“If we do file it, it will be narrowly tailored to deal with two things: free speech and our law enforcement concern at handing a Supreme Court-recognized defense to every criminal out there: ‘Oh, yeah, the video game made me do it,’?” Shurtleff said.

The California law, which passed in 2005, would prohibit the sale of violent video games to those under age 18. But a federal appeals court blocked implementation of the law, ruling that the ban infringed on free speech and California couldn’t prove video game violence was harmful to minors.

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