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Miami Herald
October 31 1970
By: Steve Sink
MORRISON GETS 6-MONTHS SENTENCE, $500 FINE
Rock singer Jim Morrison was sentenced Friday to six months in the Dade County Jail and fined $500 for exposing himself during a Miami rock concert last year.
The sentence was the maximum for indecent exposure. Criminal Court Judge Murray Goodman also handed the lead singer of The Doors, a two month sentence for profanity, but ordered it served concurrently with the longer sentence.
Goodman provided for Morrison’s release from jail after serving two months, with the remaining four months of probation. The judge also placed Morrison on an additional two years probation.
Morrison, 26 will remain free on $50,000 bond while his Sept. 20 conviction is appealed. Before the sentencing Friday, he said he will return to Los Angeles where The Doors are working on a record album.
Along with the sentence, Goodman read a prepared statement to a courtroom packed with spectators and representatives of Miami News media. The judge told Morrison “The suggestion that your conduct was an acceptable community standard…is just not true. To admit that this nation accepts as a community standard the indecent exposure and the offensive language spoken by you would be to admit that a small minority who spew obscenities, who disregard law and order and who display utter contempt for our institutions and heritage have determined the community standards for us all,” Goodman said.
Before Goodman entered the courtroom, Morrison said he expected to receive the maximum penalty for the misdemeanors. But he said he hopes to win permanent freedom on appeal and this avoid imprisonment.
“Jail – that’s a bad place,” he said.
Morrison was found innocent by a six member jury of two other charges stemming from the March 1 1969 concert at Dinner Key Auditorium. They were public drunkenness and lewd and lascivious behavior.
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October 31 1970
By: Steve Sink
MORRISON GETS 6-MONTHS SENTENCE, $500 FINE
Rock singer Jim Morrison was sentenced Friday to six months in the Dade County Jail and fined $500 for exposing himself during a Miami rock concert last year.
The sentence was the maximum for indecent exposure. Criminal Court Judge Murray Goodman also handed the lead singer of The Doors, a two month sentence for profanity, but ordered it served concurrently with the longer sentence.
Goodman provided for Morrison’s release from jail after serving two months, with the remaining four months of probation. The judge also placed Morrison on an additional two years probation.
Morrison, 26 will remain free on $50,000 bond while his Sept. 20 conviction is appealed. Before the sentencing Friday, he said he will return to Los Angeles where The Doors are working on a record album.
Along with the sentence, Goodman read a prepared statement to a courtroom packed with spectators and representatives of Miami News media. The judge told Morrison “The suggestion that your conduct was an acceptable community standard…is just not true. To admit that this nation accepts as a community standard the indecent exposure and the offensive language spoken by you would be to admit that a small minority who spew obscenities, who disregard law and order and who display utter contempt for our institutions and heritage have determined the community standards for us all,” Goodman said.
Before Goodman entered the courtroom, Morrison said he expected to receive the maximum penalty for the misdemeanors. But he said he hopes to win permanent freedom on appeal and this avoid imprisonment.
“Jail – that’s a bad place,” he said.
Morrison was found innocent by a six member jury of two other charges stemming from the March 1 1969 concert at Dinner Key Auditorium. They were public drunkenness and lewd and lascivious behavior.
END.