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George Haag describes removing a portrait of Andy Warhol by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from the wall at the Memorial Art Gallery.
George Haag had butterflies in his stomach, more like a performer in the wings than a defendant in a criminal case, as he waited to be called into Courtroom 401 at the Hall of Justice in downtown Rochester recently.
“I’m excited,” he said. “I feel like I’m on a blind date.”
He had yet to meet his public defender in the flesh and had dressed up for the occasion, wearing a brown sport coat over a red knitted vest and a novelty necktie emblazoned with cartoon breasts that he bought at the adult store Show World in Henrietta. ....

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