United States ex rel. Coates v. Laird

McMILLAN, District Judge.

Christopher Coates, petitioner, is a native of North Carolina, a graduate in college and law at the University of *215North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a practicing lawyer. He was raised in the Camp Greene (Charlotte) Presbyterian Church and many of his convictions are traced to his early Christian training. He was an Eagle Scout and on at least one occasion preached the Sunday sermon in his home church on a touchy moral subject of controversial nature (race relations). His father, an elder in the church, is a Purple Heart veteran of World War II.

Coates enlisted in the…