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...Francisco police authorities arrested Lawrence Ferlinghetti, sometime painter and poet, and bookshop proprietor on the North Beach. Ferlinghetti, who had published Ginsberg’s poem in his Pocket Poet series, was charged with dissemination of “obscene and indecent writings” and brought to trial under California’s newly valid Obscenity...
...Howl’s trial as a lewd work was hardly in the tradition of Ulysses. It consisted mainly of a parade of poetry professors from nearby universities to justify Ginsberg’s sexual imagery as an instrument of rendering his vision of human experience. Mark Schorer (of Berkeley), Walter Van Tillburg Clark, and Kenneth Rexroth (strawman poet and loquacious spokesman for the North Beach literati) told Judge Clayton Horn that the language of vulgarity was for Ginsberg a natural vernacular. (Ginsberg, after a stint at Columbia had been educated in night-spots, ghost towns, and freight car pilgrimages...
...long appeals process in death penalty cases is intended to minimize the chances of an error. In the Brooks case, Texas may have killed the wrong man. Brooks and a partner were both convicted in 1977 of murdering an automobile mechanic the year before. It never came out in trial who actually fired the bullet that killed the mechanic. But Brooks’ partner, by using the appeals process, was allowed to plead guilty last year to having committed the crime. He was given a 40-year sentence, and could be eligible for parole in just two years. Brooks...
Ajemian’s lawyer declined to give comment on the outcomes of Ajemian’s trial, but did acknowledge that his client had been treated for mental health problems in the past...
...defeat has further spurred ample speculation in the British press about a leadership challenge to Brown from ambitious Labourites. Any open challenge would likely come first as trial balloons from backbench "stalking horse" candidates, who could never win. But if the bidding were open, more prominent party figures, many of whom now argue passionately for unity behind Brown, could enter the ring. Among the names mentioned are David Milliband, the baby-faced but brilliant Foreign Secretary; Ed Balls, the Education Secretary, who was a key Brown operative in the years of covert internecine war against Tony Blair's camp...