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Clerks for the state supreme court justices have grabbed up most of the briefs printed. I managed to get one of the secretaries working for Joseph J. Balliro, Baird's attorney, to lend me a copy for a day. A grey looking fellow in a charcoal three-piece suit cornered me in an elevator in the court building when he saw what I had in my hand and made me swear up and down that I could not tell him where to find another copy...
...fuss, the brief deals only peripherally with the issues for which Baird has been fighting. A lawyer has to find constitutional excuses for what are more basically humanitarian questions...
...Baird tested the law in April, 1967, by giving Emko foam to an unmarried woman before an audience of 1800 at Boston University. Six months later, he was found guilty of exhibiting contraceptives and of giving them to an unmarried woman...
...even this is merely an appeal to the state's self-interest. It is crisp, numerical, clinical--only distantly related to the attempted abortions by wire coat hangers and steam from boiling turpentine that Baird is always so quick to talk about...
...ARGUMENT Balliro predicted as likely to convince the court comes in another section of his brief. Since Baird exhibited contraceptives during a peaceful meeting in which he asked his audience to write their legislators to change the laws, Balliro claims that exhibiting the devices was an extension of Baird's rights under the First Amendment...