Griffin v. Maryland
Case Date: 07/22/1964
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Griffin v. Maryland, 378 U.S. 130 (1964),[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the convictions of five African Americans who were arrested during a protest of a privately owned amusement park by a park employee who was also a deputy sheriff. The Court found that the convictions violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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