Ms. Stromberg

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Charge:	"Sedition (includes mockery of authority/king/monarchy, etc)"
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Year Cleared:	1931
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	California
County or Region of Crime:	San Bernardino
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Result:	Judicially Exonerated
Summary of Case:	"Ms. Stromberg was wrongly convicted of aiding "propaganda that is of a seditious character" by displaying a red flag in a public place in San Bernardino, California. Stromberg's conviction was based on the facts that she "was a member of the Young Communist League, an international organization affiliated with the Communist Party. The charge against her concerned a daily ceremony at the camp in which the appellant supervised and directed the children in raising a red flag, "a camp-made reproduction of the flag of Soviet Russia, which was also the flag of the Communist Party in the United States." (Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 (1931)) After her conviction in the San Bernardino Superior Court was affirmed by the California Supreme Court, Stromberg filed a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court. The USSC accepted review of Stromberg's case. On May 18, 1931 the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Stromberg's conviction because the California statute she was convicted of was unconstitutional becaue it was so vague and indefinite that it permitted the punishment of a person for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of expression."
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Innocence Proved By:	"On May 18, 1931 the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Stromberg's conviction because the California statute she was convicted of was unconstitutional becaue it was so vague and indefinite that it permitted the punishment of a person for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of expression."
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Sex:	Female
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 (1931) (Reversing conviction based on the statute she was convicted of violating is void for vagueness.)"
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Ms. Stromberg

Charge:

"Sedition (includes mockery of authority/king/monarchy, etc)"

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Years Imprisoned:

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Year Convicted:

Year Cleared:

1931

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

California

County or Region of Crime:

San Bernardino

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Result:

Judicially Exonerated

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

"On May 18, 1931 the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Stromberg's conviction because the California statute she was convicted of was unconstitutional becaue it was so vague and indefinite that it permitted the punishment of a person for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of expression."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Female

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"Stromberg v. California, 283 U.S. 359 (1931) (Reversing conviction based on the statute she was convicted of violating is void for vagueness.)"

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https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/283/359/case.html

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