Legal Opinion
Garrison v. Louisiana
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 23, 1964No. 4PublishedCited by 1,783 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
Appellant is the District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, During a dispute with the eight judges of *65the Criminal District Court of the Parish, he held a press - conference at which he issued a statement disparaging their judicial conduct. As a result, he was tried without -a jury before a judge from another parish and convicted of criminal defamation under the Louisiana Criminal Defamation Statute.1 The principal charges alleged to *66be defamatory were his attribution of a large backlog of pending criminal cases to the inefficiency, laziness, and excessive vacations of the judges, and…
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