ruled that where a policeman's word is unsubstantiated and the defendant denies the charge and has a good character witness he must be found innocent. "The trouble is," he added, "that many attorneys do not know this."

Mr. Zwerin added that the time must come when sexual acts between two consenting adults in private will not be a crime, and when we must change our Judaic-Christian tradition of morality.

HOMOSEXUALS NOT A RACE APART

That sex deviants have an unfortunate tendency to consider themselves as a race apart, the "third sex", or a special group with special privileges was deplored by Judge Ploscowe in his address on "The Law and the Sex Deviant" following the Mattachine Annual Banquet. Ho mooked the elaborate propaganda characterizing the homosexual as more sensitive, more artistic and more intellectual.

"If you are going to reform penal law, it is not going to be done with this sort of propaganda," he declared. This group to be effective in the change of sex statutes must align itself with heterosexuals who believe that present sex laws do not perform their proper functions."

"He reiterated Kinsey's statement that if criminal sex statutes were enforced, 5% of the population would be supporting the other 95% in jail. This exaggeration, he said points up the fact that generally sex behavior, not the normal intercourse between a married man and his wife, is puniskible under present laws.

"Our sex crime laws are an illustration of the American tendency to cure anything and everything by law, "Judge Ploscowe stated.

The current of reform at the present time has been given a big push by Kinsey with his illustrations of how widespread are violations and how many unenforceable "dead letter" statutes are on the books, he said.

In considering reform it is necessary to determine which

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