Edited sentence: In the original court case, defendant Stevens was convicted of creating three videotapes that depicted animal cruelty, for the purpose of selling the tapes in interstate commerce.Stevens was not accused of creating engaging in animal cruely himself, or of shooting the original footage from which the videos were created.The appeals court ruled that dog fighting, or the use of dogs to hunt hogs, may be made illegal to protect animals from cruelty, but that the law in question, prohibiting the depiction of animal cruelty, violates the First Amendment.The third tape depicted a pit bull attacking a domestic pig as part of the dog being trained to catch and kill wild hogs.Two of the tapes depicted pit bulls engaged in dog fighting