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Overfelt was charged by the San Francisco Police with a criminal misdemeanor for "spinning his wheels" [burout performance] with a 1977 black Trans Am in front of a SF gallery. The legal proceedings were recorded by celebrated courtroom sketch artists in a series of 6 court room sketch works. Overfelt was represented by liberal attorney-cum-publicity hound, brother of Richard Serra, Tony Serra and sketched by Walter Stewart, the courtroom illustrator who immortalized the O.J. and Unabomber trials as well as the court room sketch artist Vicky Behringer (enron, michael jackson, unabomber). The 8 month long deliberation, slotted for a jury trial was eventually cleared after the artist's ticket-turned-courtroom-reception-invite appeared in the editorial section of a San Francisco newspaper.

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