Maurice Carroll

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Florida
Support
Civil Liberties
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Biography

Maurice Carroll was a Jewish Cultural Center director cited for contempt in the 1954 Dade County 'subversive activities' probe for invoking the Fifth Amendment. He was convicted, but his one-year term was voided by the Florida Supreme Court in November 1954.

Case

Charges: Contempt —.
Sentence: One year (voided by the Florida Supreme Court, November 1954). Verdict as recorded: Convicted; one-year term voided November 1954. Charges as recorded: Contempt — for refusing, on Fifth Amendment grounds, to answer a Dade County 'subversive activities' probe.
Convicted: Yes

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