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Eighteen persons arrested last month while peddling Avatar--five Harvard students among them--were convicted in East Cambridge Court yesterday of selling obscene literature...
...Avatar lawyer Harvey A. Silverglate of Crane, Inker, and Oteri, immediately appealed the decision to the Superior Court...
Egan, Crampton, Kornbluth, and Lerner were arrested in Harvard Square on Feb. 5 with 11 other Avatar vendors, one day before Cambridge police and Avatar editors called a truce in their longrunning dispute. Rossman was arrested two days before...
Judge Lawrence F. Feloney, who handed down the convictions, ruled that only issue 18, of the three issues for which arrests have been made, was obscene. He acquitted four other Avatar salesmen arrested selling issues 16 and 17 to minors on the grounds that those issues were not obscene...
...Feloney sentenced Gordon R. Foote, Jr. '70, the first Harvard student arrested for selling Avatar, to two months in the House of Correction. Foote, arrested while distributing the 17th issue, was found guilty of selling obscene literature to a minor. Foote's case is being appealed...