Why Did Raphael Golb Plead Not Guilty?-another SUMMARY. Dead Sea Scrolls

Frederick Seidel's poetry collection

"Ooga-Booga" won the 2006 

Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

(click for website)

Raphael Golb testified that

he was the inspiration 

for the name 'Jonathan Seidel'

While I continue to compose new posts, here is my latest SUMMARY of the Dead Sea Scrolls trial of Raphael Golb. Not exactly a Reprint, but not totally fresh either.
(NOTE there are 3 other new posts, below, in the last 2 days.)

TRUE or FALSE IRRELEVANT

Did the jury convict Raphael Golb of falsely accusing Dr. Lawrence Schiffman of plagiarism?

No, he was not found guilty of that.

The jury was told that the truth or falsity of of Raphael Golb's accusation of Dr. Schiffman was irrelevant to their decision of "criminality."

The sum total of the "criminal" charges in this trial, as presented to the jury, as I understand it, is simply this:

The 'LARRY SCHIFFMAN' Gmails. Dead Sea Scrolls, Raphael Golb

Rikers Island State Penitentiary, NY

where Raphael Golb,
the son of an academic rival,
could be sentenced to 4 years. . .

. . .for certain emails that he sent

perhaps hoping 

to "obtain a benefit"

or perhaps hoping to "annoy,"

by parodying a professor;

And email accounts he opened

-including many he never used;

And for a name he invented;

And for perhaps hoping

the professor might not get $650.

[But which the professor got.]

A new point about those emails, in which Raphael Golb says he "parodied" Dr. Lawrence Schiffman. 

First, I repeat two points from a previous post; hang on, though, there's new info to follow.
1) "PANICKED AND CONFESSIONAL E-MAILS"
This quote from the Associated Press article Sep 14 2010 (J. Peltz):

"New York University professor Lawrence Schiffman's students and colleagues started getting panicked and confessional e-mails, in his name, that pointed to blog posts accusing him of plagiarism. Prosecutors say the e-mails and website posts were a hoax created by [Raphael Golb]."

(Of course the "website posts" themselves- accusing Schiffman of plagiarism- were not part of any "hoax"- they were Raphael Golb's deadly serious accusations.)

from: Raphael Golb Dead Sea Scrolls Blog
http://deadseascrollstrial.blogspot.com 

Witness for the prosecution Dean Stimoson verified that Schiffman's colleagues found the emails "weird." Dr. Schiffman said that colleagues were asking him what was going on.

So, if Raphael Golb's intention was for people to think he really was Dr. Lawrence Schiffman, he did a terrible job of it.