GRISWOLD V. CONNECTICUT 381 U.S. 479 (1965) CASE BRIEF

GRISWOLD V. CONNECTICUT

381 U.S. 479 (1965)

NATURE OF THE CASE: Griswold (D), the Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and its medical director, a licensed physician, were convicted as accessories for giving married persons information and medical advice on how to prevent conception, and following examination, prescribing a contraceptive device or material for the wife's use. A Connecticut (P) statute makes it a crime for any person to use any drug or article to prevent conception. Ds claimed that the accessory statute as applied violated the Fourteenth Amendment. An intermediate appellate court and the State's highest court affirmed the judgment.

FACTS: Griswold (D), the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood in Connecticut, and Dr. Buxton (D) counseled married couples about contraceptives. They were convicted under a Connecticut law, which made this an offense. They were convicted for the counseling, not the actual use of the contraceptives. The appellants were found guilty as accessories and fined $100 each, against the claim that the accessory statute, as so applied, violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The Appellate Division of the Circuit Court affirmed. The Supreme Court of Errors affirmed that judgment.

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