Legal Opinion
Adderley v. Florida
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 14, 1966No. 19PublishedCited by 863 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
Petitioners, Harriett Louise Adderley and 31 other, persons, were convicted by a jury in a joint trial in the County Judge’s Court of Leon County, Florida, on a charge of “trespass with a malicious and mischievous intent” upon the premises of the county jail contrary to § 821.18 of the Florida statutes set out below.1 Petitioners, apparently all students of the Florida A. & M. University in Tallahassee, had gone from the school to the jail about a mile away, along with many other students, to “demonstrate” at the jail their protests of arrests of other protesting students the day before, and…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Cox v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Edwards v. South CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Thompson v. City of LouisvilleSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Garner v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
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3Cited by863 opinions
- Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Buckley v. ValeoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Grayned v. City of RockfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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