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Freed By Jury In Caw Charging Violation Of Birth Control LawMilwaukee — (.4** — Twenty-five minutes of deliberation by a district court jury of five men and one woman, ail married, resulted in an acquittal verdict Thursday in the first court test of the O'Malley birth control law by the last legislature.Mrs. Adele Gordon was the pns-oner acquitted. Her husband, John, who operated a birth control clinic here, still faces similar charges.The prosecution argued the case was not concerned with the morally of birth control, but whether Mrs Gordon had violated the state lawforbidding sale of contraceptives by anyone but physicians and pharmacists tnd to only married persons Defense counsel asserted the outdoor relief department had directed many chanty cases to the Gordons, and assailed the law as ‘ freak legislation.**
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La Crosse Tirbune and Leader Press
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Apr 05, 1935
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