Word: goldstein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obscenity conviction brought only a comparative wrist slap to Screw's cofounders, Publisher Jim Buckley, 26, and Executive Editor Al Goldstein, 35. Each could have received a $6,000 fine and six years in prison, as demanded by the district attorney. But the judges levied only fines of $1,500 apiece. Both men promptly paid up, announced appeals and went back to publishing. But two more obscenity trials for Screw lie ahead, both based on specific seizures of relatively recent issues...
...acts of the others. So complex are the legal rules that the judge himself may unwittingly tip the scales against individual defendants when he charges the jury and tells it how difficult conspiracy is to prove and how secretive conspirators tend to be. The net effect, says Dean Abraham Goldstein of the Yale Law School, "is to invite juries to find 'guilt' on less evidence than is required of other crimes...
...executed. But eminent scholars do support two basic reforms. For one thing, prosecutors should not be allowed to bring conspiracy charges when the plot has been carried out and the participants can be prosecuted for the very crime they conspired to commit. Second, critics like Yale's Goldstein contend that conspiracy law should be more compatible with the more explicit law of attempts. Under that doctrine, an illegal act must be close to consummation before it is deemed an attempted crime. Thus Goldstein would make conspiracy a criminal matter only when the conspirators have carried their agreement...
...your own safety," Duncan instructed," We would like you to use the name Ron Goldstein when calling here. Ask for Ducan, but say that Ron is calling, and I'll know who you are. If I have occasion to call you, I will say that I am Harry Baker...
...quite. After Elliott had had a year or so of schooling, Charlie Lowe decided to put him on local TV shows, like the Bonny Maid Linoleum Versatile Varieties. As he was about to go on camera for the first time, "the names of the children were being announced," Mrs. Goldstein remembers. "Charlie Lowe whispered to me: 'Now you don't want him to go on as Goldstein, do you? How about Gold?' 'No,' I said. 'Gould...