Video: 'Jim Morrison Miami Trial 1970 Footage'

(Friday, October 30, 1970, scheduled for afternoon EDT) — Rock singer Jim Morrison was sentenced to six months in the Dade County jail and fined $500 today for exposing himself and using profanity during a concert at Dinner Key Auditorium on Mar. 1, 1969.

Criminal Court Judge Murray Goodman handed the lead singer of The Doors the maximum sentence possible but provided for Morrison’s release from jail after serving two months of the term. The remaining four months would be served on probation.

Morrison, 26, would remain free on $50,000 bond while his Sept. 20, 1970, conviction is appealed.

Before today’s sentence was handed down, Morrison said he would return to Los Angeles where The Doors are working on a new album.

When that album (LA Woman) was completed, Morrison left Los Angeles to live in Paris. He died there of heart failure on July 3, 1971, making the appeal a moot point.

On December 8, 2010, the 67th anniversary of Morrison’s birth, Florida Governor Charlie Crist and the state clemency board unanimously signed a complete posthumous pardon for Morrison.