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Hunter S. Thompson
Miscellaneous Reports
from San Antonio Business Journal, January 11, 1991
...Last February, Colorado police searched Thompson's Rocky Mountain
cabin for 11 hours based on allegations by a former actress and
X-rated movie producer that Thompson sexually assaulted her when she refused
to join him in his hot tub. The search turned up varying amounts of cocaine,
LSD and marijuana, an antique Gatling gun and four sticks of dynamite,
which were confiscated.Thompson's battery of National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyersattorneys, Goldstein among them, called the case a blatant
violation of the search-and-seizure protections promised by the Fourth
Amendment and mounted a vigorous defense. By May, the case was dismissed,
and the district attorney who prosecuted it was under investigation
for conspiracy to commit perjury. And in November, Thompson waxed
ecstatic about Goldstein's defense of him in an article in Rolling Stone,
dubbing him the "ineffable maestro of motions."
"When the Great Whistle blew, NACDL members Gerry
Goldstein and Hal Haddonwere warriors and saved me from going to
prison. . . . Goldstein gave (the opposition) nightmares at high noon just
by sitting at the defense table with that fine cheetah grin on his trace
and shooting his cuffs now and then with obvious impatience at having to
wait so long for the meal he knew was coming," Thompson penned.
There was no inkling of Gerald Goldstein, renowned criminal defense
lawyer and civil libertarian who gets written up in Rolling Stone and The
New York
Times, in Gerry Goldstein, the fun-loving, beer-guzzling, would-be
jock in high school.
from The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 19, 1991
...On May 30, after a court hearing, the charges against
Thompson were dropped. Thompson's lawyers, Hal Haddon
and Jerry Goldstein, have now filed notice that they intend to bring
a $22 million civil lawsuit against the district attorney's office for
"malicious prosecution, gross negligence and criminal malfeasance."
>It appears this suit was never filed.
Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV) July 20, 1997
Sunday
Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson
pleaded no contest to spraying
a man in the face with a fire extinguisher in Boulder, Colo., after
the charge
was reduced to a petty offense.
If convicted of a felony or misdemeanor, the writer who chronicled
1970s presidential politics and his extensive drug use, would have faced
trial in Aspen for driving while impaired.
Thompson, who entered the plea to petty disorderly conduct Friday,
was initially charged with misdemeanor assault in the April fire
extinguisher episode at Boulder's Fox Theater. A few weeks earlier, prosecution
was
deferred in the Aspen case on the condition that Thompson remain
free of any major convictions until November.
At public speaking appearances, Thompson sometimes sprays a fire
extinguisher toward the audience to close shows. He was showing some people
the technique in his dressing room when then-theater security manager Eric
Kent was hit, his lawyer said.
"All along we've thought the whole thing was pretty silly," attorney
Abe Hutt
said Friday. "This acknowledges that there wasn't really anything
to it."
Thompson, who wrote a column in Rolling Stone magazine and such
books as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," was fined $ 100 and court costs.
Kent, who was treated at a hospital emergency room after the spraying,
no longer works at the theater and couldn't be reached for comment.
>Did Alex Hunter strike this plea bargain,
or who?
>...Shades of Pasta Jay?
Connection
of Haddon, Morgan & Foreman
to Michael Tigar, attorney for Terry Lynn
Nichols
The Denver Post, December 5, 1995 Tuesday,
p. A-19
"Nichols' lawyer, local firm link up"
Michael Tigar, attorney
for Terry Lynn Nichols, will become "of
counsel" with the Denver law firm of
Haddon, Morgan and Foreman in mid-1996, Lee Foreman said yesterday.
Although he will have an office
with the Denver firm, he will be neither a partner nor an employee of
Haddon, Morgan and Foreman, said Foreman. Foreman said he expects
Tigar to continue to have a Texas office. He also said he is very
pleased with the association.
Reference to Haddon, Haddon's Wife Lobbyist
Wife, Beverly, and Lt. Governor Gail Schoetler and her husband, Donald
Stevens, socializing at a party
Rocky Mountain News, September 21,
1995
"Play it again, Sam"
* Tom Hoog, once former Sen. Gary
Hart's top aide and now chairman of Hill & Knowlton Public Affairs
Worldwide, with wife Sandy and son Mike. . . .
* Alan Salazar, manager of Romer's
1994 campaign and still a top aide, who had strained his back trying to
feed his new baby Wednesday morning.
Romer got him a ride on Air Force One to
Pueblo, and the attendants gave him some Motrin. ''I don't know whether
to take it or keep it for a souvenir,'' Salazar said . . .
* Also sighted: Lt. Gov. Gail Schoettler
and husband Donald Stevens of the University of Denver; former legislator
Tony Hernandez; dairyman Eddie
Robinson;
oilwoman Merle Chambers and husband Hugh Grant; former District Attorney
Bill Ritter; former Hart aide and Denver lawyer Hal
Haddon, with lobbyist wife Beverly;
legislator-turned-lobbyist Rich Gebhardt; former legislator Polly Baca.
>the article excerpt is a list of people
socializing at a party
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