Edwards Vs South Carolina 372 US (1963)
Case Summary
In this case the petitioner was 187 and the all of them were black. They organized a march to the South Carolina state house grounds small groups in which walk in an open public area protesting the policies of the segregation in their state. The march was peaceful and did not block pedestrian or vehicular traffic and conducted was an orderly fashion on public property. A group of thirty people approximately confronted the group and ordered its members or submit and arrest. At that time the march was not disperse and they began singing religious and patriotic songs like the Star Spangled Banner. They all of them were arrested and later convicted on a charge of breach of peace.
Decision of the Court
The court was held that all the convicted and arrested persons violated the rights of marchers. The supreme court of …show more content…
But the meeting while was in progress the police raided there. The person De Jong was arrested and also charged with violated the state’s Criminal syndicalism statute. That is the doctrine in law as criminal syndicalism which is physical violence or advocates crime or any lawful acts and a method of as a means of effecting industrial and accomplishing political revolution. De Jong moved for acquittal after being convicted and in argue he proved in his case that the insufficient evidence was to warrant to his conviction and the Superior Court distinguished that the De Jong indictment did not charge with syndicalism criminal but rather that he conduct presided an assemblage of, society, persons, organization and group which called by which was unlawfully advocating and teaching the communist party in the County of Multnomah the criminal doctrine of sabotage and
Case Summary
In this case the petitioner was 187 and the all of them were black. They organized a march to the South Carolina state house grounds small groups in which walk in an open public area protesting the policies of the segregation in their state. The march was peaceful and did not block pedestrian or vehicular traffic and conducted was an orderly fashion on public property. A group of thirty people approximately confronted the group and ordered its members or submit and arrest. At that time the march was not disperse and they began singing religious and patriotic songs like the Star Spangled Banner. They all of them were arrested and later convicted on a charge of breach of peace.
Decision of the Court
The court was held that all the convicted and arrested persons violated the rights of marchers. The supreme court of …show more content…
But the meeting while was in progress the police raided there. The person De Jong was arrested and also charged with violated the state’s Criminal syndicalism statute. That is the doctrine in law as criminal syndicalism which is physical violence or advocates crime or any lawful acts and a method of as a means of effecting industrial and accomplishing political revolution. De Jong moved for acquittal after being convicted and in argue he proved in his case that the insufficient evidence was to warrant to his conviction and the Superior Court distinguished that the De Jong indictment did not charge with syndicalism criminal but rather that he conduct presided an assemblage of, society, persons, organization and group which called by which was unlawfully advocating and teaching the communist party in the County of Multnomah the criminal doctrine of sabotage and