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Adderley
v. Florida
385 U.S. 39 (1966).
Author: DK
Facts:
Petitioners were convicted of trespass with a malicious and
mischievous intent when they went to a jail to protest.
Issue: Was the
conviction unconstitutional?
Holding: No
Rationale:
The US Constitution does not forbid a State to control the use of
its own property for its own lawful nondiscriminatory
purpose. The sheriff, as jail custodian, had power, as the
state courts have here held, to direct that this large crowd of
people get off the jail grounds. There is no evidence that
the sheriff found the content of petitioners’ speech to be
objectionable. The record reveals that he objected only to
their presence on that part of the jail grounds reserved for jail
uses.
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