United States v. Stanley Lorenzo Garland

LUMBARD, Chief Judge:

Stanley Lorenzo Garland appeals his conviction on two counts for twice refusing to submit to physical examinations to determine his fitness for induction into the Armed Forces in violation of 50 U.S.C. Appendix § 462(a) after a jury trial before Judge Cooper in the District Court for the Southern District of New York. He received a suspended three-year sentence. He claims error in the judge’s charge and that the exclusion of his infant daughter from the courtroom on one occasion denied him a public trial. We affirm the conviction.

At the trial Garland took the stand and…