Complex sentence: In its 1969 decision of "Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham", the Supreme Court reversed Shuttlesworth's conviction, determining that circumstances indicated that the parade permit was denied not to control traffic, as the state contended, but to censor ideas.
Split into simpler sentences: In its 1969 decision of "Shuttlesworth v. Birmingham", the Supreme Court reversed Shuttlesworth's conviction. They determined circumstances indicated that the parade permit was denied not to control traffic, as the state contended, but to censor ideas.