29+ Brandenburg V Ohio 1969 Pics

29+ Brandenburg V Ohio 1969 Pics. On june 9, 1969, the supreme court held that the ohio law violated brandenburg's right to free speech. The state of ohio convicted brandenburg under its criminal syndicalism statute, which essentially prohibits advocating violence for political reform.

Warren court (1969) lower court:

Brandenburg, a ku klux klan leader. Brandenburg appealed his conviction on the grounds that the provisions of the ohio law were so broad that they violated freedom of speech guarantees under the first and fourteenth amendments. United states supreme court 395 u.s. Ohio (1969), the government may forbid incitement—speech directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action and likely to incite or produce such action (such as a speech to a mob urging it to attack a nearby building).