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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...
...Feloney's objections to issue 18 were directed at a "obscene" letter printed at the top of page seven among the paper's classified ads. Both Crampton, chairman of the board for Avatar, and editor Wayne M. Hansen, who received one of the $300 fines, took the stand to defend the letter and the rest of Avatar's contents...
...without recourse to law. Last month, the parents of a minor filed a formal criminal complaint against Briggs and Briggs for sellingThe Fugs, a record which, claimed the parents, was indeed "harmful to minors" under the provisions of Section 28. In a subsequent meeting with Cambridge Judge Lawrence T. Feloney, spokesmen for Briggs and Briggs agreed not to sell The Fugs or The Village Fugs, their first album. The judge dismissed the case without determining the legal status of the records...
...parents of the youth sought to have the state name Briggs and Briggs, its proprietor and a female sales clerk in a formal criminal complaint, but Cambridge Court Judge Lawrence F. Feloney denied the complaint Wednesday after Briggs and Briggs agreed not to sell the record in the future...