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Wednesday, November 2, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Prof to testify at obscenity trial
A University of Kansas professor said yesterday that he expected to testify today at the obscurity trial of Al Goldstein, publisher of Screw and Sm magazine.
Goldstein and Jim Buckley, Goldstein's former business partner, have been charged in a 12-count indictment with mailing obscene issues of Screw and Screw magazines into Kansas. Each count is punishable by up to five years in prison.
Dennis Quinn, professor of English and director of the Integrated Humanities Program, said he probably would testify as an expert on the literature value of the magazines.
Quinn, who testified at Goldstein's first trial in the spring of 1976, said he was asked to be a witness because he was considered a literary expert.
"If the material is held to have serious literary value, they (Goldstein and Buckley) will be found innocent of mailing obscene material," he said.
But Quim said he thinks, as he testified at Goldstein's earlier trial, that the magazine was not the target.
THE DEFENDANTS were convicted after a four-week trial in Wichita. But Judge Frank B. Theis overturned the jury's verdict on legal technicalities and moved the trial to Kansas City, Kan. That trial began Monday.
Quinn said his testimony would deal only with questions about the magazine's literary value; it would not deal with obscurity.
Quain said he did not know why he was chosen instead of other literary experts.
"They could have chosen anyone," he said.
The obscurity indictments are the result of an investigation by New York postal investigator Ray Lombardi. Lombardi's investigation included instructions to postal inspectors in Kansas to subscribe to the magazines.
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A government attorney said First Amendment freedoms were not an issue in Goldstein's trial, because obscene language was unfair for protection under the constitution.
The U.S. Supreme Court's definition of obecency states that something is obsecene if it lacks serious literary, artistic, political or community standards, measured against community standards.
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