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JONES v. HELMS

No. 80-850.

452 U.S. 412 (1981)

JONES, WARDEN, STONE MOUNTAIN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION v. HELMS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 15, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Atha Cosgrove, Assistant Attorney General of Georgia, argued the cause for appellant. With her on the briefs were Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Robert S. Stubbs II, Executive Assistant Attorney General, Don A. Langham, First Assistant Attorney General, John C. Walden and Michael J. Bowers, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, and Nicholas G. Dumich, Assistant Attorney General.

James C. Bonner, Jr., argued the cause for the appellee. With him on the brief was Robert D. Peckham.

JUSTICE STEVENS delivered the opinion of the Court.

In Georgia, a parent who willfully and voluntarily abandons his or her dependent child is guilty of a misdemeanor. Those parents who commit that offense within Georgia and thereafter leave the State are guilty of a felony. The question presented by this appeal is whether this statutory classification violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.1

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