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Rock Magazine
September 1970
MORRISON, NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS
By: Mike Gershman
The utter senselessness of Jim Morrison’s Miami trial for lewdness, exposure, profanity, and drunkenness was underlined by last week’s lack of activities.
Nothing happened.
The prosecution would up its flimsy case with more police witnesses. To sum up, they have no still photographs or moving pictures of the concert showing Morrison exposed or simulated oral copulation with Robbie Krieger. They have a tape of the concert with various obscenities but there is no crowd reaction to indicate any exposure or other astounding behavior. Their eye witnesses differ markedly in their stories, Some say the concert lasted twenty minutes and Morrison exposed himself after fifteen. One cop says Morrison bent over Krieger in a “copulatory manner,” another says it was the other way around. Several prosecution witnesses located within ten feet of the stage all night report seeing nothing. A local attorney said, “If I were a prosecutor, I would be embarrassed by having to present this case.”
The defense case stated with seven kids who went to the concert, had a great time, and saw nothing like what the prosecution charges. The cross examination was even more lackluster. More and more it becomes evident that prosecutor Terence Mc Williams would rather be pruning his rose garden than doing this case.
All this nonsense is taking it’s toll on our happy little band. No one can really get worked up about the sham of the trial, the shallowness of the press, or the insipidity the groupies. When you’re asked for the fifteenth time (with standard accompanying leer) if you want to get turned on, the yeses get more and more mechanical. The groupies have good intentions, but their utter disregard for the real issues of the case grate more and more on all concerned. The lawyers who were once all worked up about defending Morrison find themselves faced with shapeless opponents, the prosecution having provided no real contest of facts, logic or justice.
We’re all waiting for….the sun? …Godot?…The End? Something. Anything.
END.
September 1970
MORRISON, NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS
By: Mike Gershman
The utter senselessness of Jim Morrison’s Miami trial for lewdness, exposure, profanity, and drunkenness was underlined by last week’s lack of activities.
Nothing happened.
The prosecution would up its flimsy case with more police witnesses. To sum up, they have no still photographs or moving pictures of the concert showing Morrison exposed or simulated oral copulation with Robbie Krieger. They have a tape of the concert with various obscenities but there is no crowd reaction to indicate any exposure or other astounding behavior. Their eye witnesses differ markedly in their stories, Some say the concert lasted twenty minutes and Morrison exposed himself after fifteen. One cop says Morrison bent over Krieger in a “copulatory manner,” another says it was the other way around. Several prosecution witnesses located within ten feet of the stage all night report seeing nothing. A local attorney said, “If I were a prosecutor, I would be embarrassed by having to present this case.”
The defense case stated with seven kids who went to the concert, had a great time, and saw nothing like what the prosecution charges. The cross examination was even more lackluster. More and more it becomes evident that prosecutor Terence Mc Williams would rather be pruning his rose garden than doing this case.
All this nonsense is taking it’s toll on our happy little band. No one can really get worked up about the sham of the trial, the shallowness of the press, or the insipidity the groupies. When you’re asked for the fifteenth time (with standard accompanying leer) if you want to get turned on, the yeses get more and more mechanical. The groupies have good intentions, but their utter disregard for the real issues of the case grate more and more on all concerned. The lawyers who were once all worked up about defending Morrison find themselves faced with shapeless opponents, the prosecution having provided no real contest of facts, logic or justice.
We’re all waiting for….the sun? …Godot?…The End? Something. Anything.
END.