(TV) Fwd: FW: ARTHUR LEE FREE AT LAST!

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

Some good news regarding Arthur Lee, the frontman of Television's fellow
Elektra recording artist Love, brought to us by Lenny Kaye via Michael Carlucci
at Subterranean Records:

--- Michael <recordsnyc@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:02:28 -0500
> Subject: FW: ARTHUR LEE FREE AT LAST!
> From: Michael <recordsnyc@earthlink.net>
> 
>                 Hey Guys,
> 
>                 Lenny Kaye just forwarded this to me. Thanks,
>                                            Michael/Subterranean Records, NYC
> 
>                 > Dear friends, the California Circuit Appeals Court has
>                 > decided to throw out Arthur Lee's original RIDICULOUS
>                 > 12-year conviction from 1996 (gee, thanks Judge) for
>                 > firing a gun (in the air in Sherman Oaks, of all places.).
>                 > They have given Los Angeles District Atty., Steven Cooley,
>                 > 60 days to retry Arthur Lee or set him free.  According to
>                 > Arthur's close friend and former tour manager, David
>                 > Fairweather (himself, an Asst. Santa Monica Dist. Atty.),
>                 > Cooley will most likely declare Arthur's sentence "Time
>                 > Served" and be done with it.  So, friends, Arthur may be a
>                 > free man again very soon.  Unfortunately, he's had to
>                 > spend
>                 > the last 6 years behind bars instead of creating and
>                 > performing great music IN BARS.  But, such is life in the
>                 > California Penal System.
>                 >
>                 > Just thought you'd like to know!


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