STATE v. BAIRD


50 N.J. 376 (1967)

235 A.2d 673

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. WILLIAM R. BAIRD, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided November 20, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert I. Ansell for appellant (Anschelewitz, Barr & Ansell, attorneys).

Thomas L. Yaccarino, Assistant County Prosecutor, for respondent (Vincent P. Keuper, County Prosecutor of Monmouth County, attorney).

Nancy F. Wechsler of the New York Bar for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. amicus curiae (McCarter & English by Eugene M. Haring, attorneys; Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst by Harriet F. Pilpel and Robert K. Ciulla, all of the New York Bar, of counsel and on the brief).


PER CURIAM:

The defendant William R. Baird telephoned the Chief of Police of the Borough of Freehold, told him that he wanted to test the constitutionality of N.J.S. 2A:170-76, and that he wanted to be arrrested after he had made his planned demonstration. On September 10, 1966 he arrived in Freehold, parked his van in a parking lot, and when Mrs. Elizabeth Dean asked him for information on birth control, he led her to the van. There he had a display board...

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