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There was little snow on the slopes above Aspen, Colo., last week, but the skiers in the chic resort had plenty to take their minds off the discouragingly good weather. Down in the Pitkin County courthouse, the likes of Jack Nicholson shared a front bench with newsmen from papers as far away as London. In the back of the crowded room, spectators stood on piles of law books and craned their necks to catch a glimpse of the defendant. Claudine Longet, 34, one of the town's beautiful people, was on trial for shooting her ski-ace lover, Vladimir...
...left Colorado's Pitkin County courthouse last week, pretty, petite Singer-Actress Claudine Longet, 34, fought back tears. Beside her, as in past moments of crisis, stood her former husband and still close friend, Singer Andy Williams, 45. Claudine had just been released on a $5,000 bond in the shooting death of her lover, Ski Champion Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich, 31, at his Aspen home, and District Attorney Frank Tucker was preparing to arraign her next week. Possible charges range from criminally negligent homicide (a misdemeanor carrying maximum penalties of two years in prison, a $5,000 fine...
...before he published his first book: Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. In the mid-sixties he ran with the Angels virtually as a friend, writing relatively sympathetically about them and eventually being stomped by them. Later he ran for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado, on the Freak Power ticket, whose platform included a decidedly unviable stand on the question of mescaline use. He almost won. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas followed this: it is a brilliant documentary novel about Hunter's and his attorney's monumentally stoned sojourn on the Strip...
...trial, Pitkin read the entire Fourteen Point program of the SLF to the jury. The program includes directives to "create revolutionary culture everywhere, fight American imperialism through continual actions that disrupt the business-as-usual fabric of American life, destroy the university unless it serves the people, protect and expand the drug culture." Nothing in the program proved that the defendants were conspiring to destroy federal property or incite a riot, but these four points might very well frighten the jury...
...defendant allegedly called for "an attack on the American judicial system." The strongest statement Pitkin attributes to the defendants, before the day of the demonstration, is this: "We're not going to picket, we're going to shut that Court House down by any means necessary." The defendant he attributed it to denied making this statement on the grounds that he never says "by any means necessary...