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Box 161

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Master pleadings; correspondence, 1983

 File — Box: 161, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the File: In this case, the ACLU submitted an amicus brief in support of Clerow (Flip) Wilson, a black American comedian popular in the 1970s, who challenged the constitutionality of admission into evidence contraband seized from him upon his arrival at Los Angeles airport. The contraband in question was $1000 worth of "cocaine and hashish." In particular, his lawyers questioned article I, section 28(d) (the "Truth-in-evidence" provision), which they asserted was unconstitutional. To summarize its...
Dates: 1983