Word: hatter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judge Terry Hatter in Los Angeles cited several reasons for dismissing charges against David Alan Wayte, 21, a former Yale philosophy student from Pasadena, Calif., who had written to President Reagan explaining why he would refuse to register. The judge's first reason was a technicality, but a sweeping one: President Jimmy Carter, ruled the judge, waited only 21 days instead of the required 30 to start the program after the new regulations were printed in the Federal Register. If this ruling is sustained on appeal, the draft registration might have to be initiated all over again, requiring those...
...Hatter also dismissed the case on the grounds that Wayte had been selected for prosecution because he had so openly opposed the registration law. Noting that all the men indicted for non registration as of last week had publicly identified themselves as draft resisters or had been described as such by acquaintances, Hatter said that Wayte was being punished for exercising his constitutional right of free speech. Finally, Hatter said, both the White House and the Justice Department had failed to produce documents and testimony demanded by the defense that would reveal just how the indicted men had been selected...
...agonize eloquently on the subject at great length. Even the famous Broadway lyricist T. S. Eliot `10 treated the concept with respect, calling it "a delicate matter" "It isn't just one of your holiday games," he added "You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter when I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES...
...When Hatter requested more complete texts, he was rudely rebuked by the Justice Department, which complained that his "appetite for more and more irrelevant disclosure of sensitive information has become insatiable...
...judge has encountered similar difficulties getting government witnesses to the stand. The White House eventually consented to allow Gen. Thomas K. Turnage, director of selective service, to testify--under very limited conditions. But it has blocked repeated efforts by Hatter to get testimony from Edwin Meese III, counselor to the President and apparently the high official shaping draft registration policy...