Miami:: Official Jim Morrison Testimony September 1970

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Jim Morrison Official Transcript of Miami Testimony September 1970

Xerox of Court Documents September 1970 from official court reporters shorthand notes.
The complete 57 page testimony of James Douglas Morrison

16th September 1969
Jim called to the stand by Max Fink on his own behalf

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17th September 1969
Jim called to the stand by Max Fink on his own behalf.
Testimony & Cross-Examination

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Under the pressure of the court case, as well as the burden of Patricia's 'abortion', Jim wrote a message to his fans, which doubtlessly also served as a cheering up to his own psyche, and which was published in several American magazines as a reader's letter:

"It's a matter of demolishing experience, just a question of gathering up all fragments into one zone of awareness, then pulverizing them sufficiently to expel from the system through its tiny doors, leaving behind the mind stripped bare, devastated and stark as ground zero. You got to have the balls to lace your own network with it; let the risk illuminate your own fluids. Look at these capillaries! Lit up like emerald peacock feathers! You gotta hook your brain fibre on the spike of a distant star and let it stretch you at the receding speed of the primal explosion. All the way, brothers and sisters, to the breaking point, and pray for a glimpse before the tissue tears. The extension of the human mind, the structure of technology squats on the surface area of collective consciousness. Get out from under the antientropic plumbing; become not just the source of energy but the receiving substance as well. Rediscover selfprogramming!
It's more than likely that a little self-abuse will be necessary to bruise away the dependence on bad habits. A little hootch, a little cootch, even a bloody brawl will keep you tainted in the understanding of Pilate's apostles and off their provendor menu. Keep yourself honest until the day you got the karmic warhead primed and can explode in their faces, leaving them gasping around mouthfuls of powdered teeth.
For now, take it as a delight to be nothing more than a stab of flesh with the total mathematical content of a pleasure quotient. Use your brain as an instrument for appreciating sensual input with its developed intricacies only as experiments in methods of acquiring more and better pleasure. Enough keeps the mythology erect - too much brings it down and through the floor. Ache on through to the other side! Kill the image! Create the essence! Never forget: the cockcunt and the brain are just opposite ends of the same organ."
(Jim Morrison in a letter, 1969)

Jim turned himself in to the FBI in Los Angeles on April 4, 1969. On November 9, 1969 he entered a not guilty plea in Miami. The trial did not start until August 12, 1970. Max Fink was Jim's defense lawyer, the prosecuter was Terrence McWilliams and Judge Murray Goodman presided over the case. Much evidence was heard from witnesses for both sides. Most of it was contradictory. On September 20, 1970 the jury found Jim Morrison guilty on the misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure and profanity. He was found not guilty on the felony charge and the misdemeanor for drunkenness. He was released on a $50,000 bond and returned to Miami on October 30, 1970 for sentencing.

Judge Goodman sentenced Jim to six months of hard labor and a $500 fine for public exposure and sixty days of hard labor for profanity. The sentences would run concurrently. He would be eligible for release after two months and would be on probation for two years and four months. His lawyer filed an immediate appeal. Until the appeal could be heard, Jim would be free on the $50,000 bond.