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...Postponed action on whether a draftee may claim conscientious-objector status because of specific objection to the Viet Nam War. The selective C.O. issue was put off when the court ruled that the case of John Sisson Jr., a recent Harvard graduate who had refused induction because he opposed the war, had been improperly appealed from a federal district court. At the same time, the court accepted two cases for next term that raise the same issue. (In similar fashion earlier last month, the court decided a case challenging the constitutionality of capital punishment. The court disposed...
...more specialized way. Tatum's Handbook for Conscientious Objectors is also an essential primer. As the continuing war has daily convinced more men that they cannot lend their bodies to the cause, draft boards have become increasingly irritable about claims for Conscientious Objector status-and carefully prepared claims have become imperative...
While the Handbook doesn't pretend to reveal any magical tactics for earning a CO, it does provide nuggets of practical information for the sincere objector. Its extensive citations from court decisions. its quotations on what constitutes a "religious" objection, and its sampling of hostile questions from draft board members may make the difference between a successful CO claim and an unsuccessful resister, mired in the jungle or in jail. A detailed and sometimes gruesome description of court procedure and prison life is also necessary for those who plan complete resistance...
...young man who at 17 went into business manufacturing children's clothes and became a millionaire by the age of 23. Robert I. Toussie did not register, he said later, because his pacifist convictions prevented any contact with the military system -even applying for status as a conscientious objector. His default went unnoticed until he was 25, when an anonymous tipster informed his draft board. In appealing his subsequent conviction, Toussie argued that the Government had lost its chance to prosecute him when the federal statute of limitations ran out five years after he had committed his crime...
...decision overturned the conviction of David E. Gutneckt, a 22-year-old from Gaylord, Minn. Gutknect was classified 1-A and was seeking conscientious objector status when he turned in his draft card during an anti-war demonstration. He was classified "delinquent," and did not report for induction as ordered. He was sentenced to four years imprisonment for draft evasion...