United States v. Fargnoli

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PETTINE, Chief Judge.

These Selective Service cases are before the court on remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit “. . . for a determination whether [as to each defendant], at the time he refused induction, his beliefs were such as to entitle him to classification as a conscientious objector under the Welsh standard but not under the prior standard.” United States v. Fargnoli, 458 F.2d 1237 (1st Cir. 1972).

The defendants appealed their convictions of refusing to submit to induction in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. sec. 462(a). At their trial,…