Word: baird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MEASURE of the interest generated by Bill Baird's fight against Massachusetts birth control laws might be the scarcity of copies of the brief submitted in his defense...
...superior court will sentence Baird only after the supreme court hands down its decision. The brief Belliro submits today will be the first statement of Baird's case by the defense...
...Baird also spoke at Harvard and challenged policemen to arrest him for distributing information about birth control. He was not arrested and has not been prosecuted on that charge
...Baird was arrested before a crowd of 2500 people in Hayden Hall at B.U., after repeatedly challenging policemen. The Roxbury District Court declined jurisdiction over the case and passed it on to the superior court...
There, Judge Donald Macaulay found Baird guilty. Bellino chose to present no defense and requested that the laws' constitutionality be ruled upon by the state supreme court...