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Irving Feiner

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
Support
Civil Liberties Socialism
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Biography

Irving Feiner was a Syracuse University student arrested for a sidewalk speech publicizing a Young Progressives meeting and criticizing local officials. His disorderly-conduct conviction was upheld 6-3 by the Supreme Court in the landmark free-speech case Feiner v. New York (1951); he served thirty days and was expelled from the university.

Case

Charges: Disorderly conduct (incitement).
Sentence: Thirty days in jail. Verdict as recorded: Yes — conviction upheld by the Supreme Court in Feiner v. New York (1951). Charges as recorded: Disorderly conduct (incitement) — for a political street-corner speech.
Convicted: Yes