Legal Opinion
Wright v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 7, 1963No. 68PublishedCited by 204 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Warren
Petitioners, six young Negroes, were convicted of breach of the peace for peacefully playing basketball in a public park in Savannah, Georgia, on the early afternoon of Monday, January 23,1961. The record is devoid of evidence of any activity which a breach of the peace statute might be thought to punish. Finding that there is no adequate state ground to bar review by this Court and that the convictions are-violative of due process of láw secured by the Fourteenth Amendment, we hold that the judgments below must be reversed.
Only four witnesses testified at petitioners’ trial: the two…
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