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{"value"=>"1991 May", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1991-05"}
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1991
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1991
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1991-05
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1991-05
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1991-05
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{"value"=>"Needle Exchange Trial Verdict Interviews"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Interviews outside the courtroom immediately after the trial court verdict acquitting AIDS activists arrested for distributing clean needles to IV drug addicts.</p> <div class=\"note\"> <p>Documentation of the complete trial was organized by activists on the Needle Exchange Committee of ACT UP/NY.</p></div> <p>[from the ACT UP/NY Capsule History: ]</p> <div class=\"note\"> <p> February 1991 -- Ten people, who had been charged with possession of needles with the intent to distribute them to IV drug users on the Lower East Side (NYC), are brought to Trial and later acquitted by a judge who agreed that the \"Necessity Defense\" applied to their case. The judge ruled that the activists' actions were justified by the need to try to save the lives of people vulnerable to HIV infection.</p></div>"}
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00:18:00