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...their tarnished image, police do manage to maintain courtroom respect -in some cases and in some places. Boston Defense Attorney Joseph Balliro points out that "anything that jurors really can't relate to will make them harden up. Motorcycle gangs, homosexuals, radicals, any defendants who threaten the juries emotionally, economically or politically" seem to lend credibility to the policeman as witness. "Suburban, small-town juries," says Balliro, "view a cop as the boy next door because, in a small town, he is." And they believe...
...Balliro connects it to his argument by citing evidence that contraceptives tend to reduce illegitimate births, so that Massachusetts laws interfere with citizens' rights to protect their welfare...
...ARGUMENT Balliro predicted as likely to convince the court comes in another section of his brief. Since Baird exhibited contraceptives during a peaceful meeting in which he asked his audience to write their legislators to change the laws, Balliro claims that exhibiting the devices was an extension of Baird's rights under the First Amendment...
...more likely that the court will uphold the law against distributing, while striking down the law against exhibiting, Balliro said...
This is all speculation: the state supreme court will not hand down a ruling for at least a month, maybe two. If they rule in Baird's favor, it will be on the basis of privacy, free speech, or another of Balliro's arguments, that the statutes do not fall within the proper realm of legislation...