Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hussain Letkowitz, and three counts of rape. Conviction of kidnapping would have meant the jury believed the doctors forced DiPietro into the car and took her to Rockport against her will. The critical charge in the controversy that followed the verdictwas aggravated rape. Aggravated rape entails the use of excessive violence or cooperative action. The judge instructed the jury that in order to convict for aggravated rape, they would also have to find the men guilty of kidnapping and each others rapes...
...beginning, Mailer spins publicity for convict and murderer Jack Abbott, helps get Abbott's prison book published and Abbott paroled. The con with the prose style of a Doberman (all speed and teeth) obeys his muse again. Six weeks after parole, Abbott kills a man in New York City's East Village. Mailer must concoct another redemption. He proposes a principle: "Culture is worth a little risk," Mailer tells reporters. Abbott should not be punished too harshly for this murder. It is true that he is not in any condition just now to walk around loose...
...trade of metaphysics; the law's only hope of survival lies precisely in its struggle to be impartial. The Mailer doctrine suggests that somehow the law should set up separate standards for artists. There are grotesque possibilities here. Who judges the literary merit? What if a literary convict is really a terrible writer? String him up? Will we need a panel of literary judges to meet the first Monday of every month at Elaine's in Manhattan to hear its cases? If the perpetrator of the Texas chain-saw massacre shows a certain flair for the short story...
Jack Henry Abbott, convict turned literary celebrity, answered...
...drunks, courting death. Thus it suggests that society is a prison of the spirit and freedom is the death throe of society: suicidal anarchy. Whenever the film focuses on Pixote's face-solemn, premoral, scuffed like a club fighter's-it seems a snapshot of an infant convict at the end of his last mile...