Legal Opinion
United States v. Wesley Clyde Brown
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 6, 1972No. 358, Docket 72-2063PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:
This case raises serious questions about the operation of the sentencing process as applied to Wesley Clyde Brown, a young, black teacher and writer, who refused to fight in the Vietnam War. Brown is presently serving a sentence of two and a half years in Lewis-burg Federal Correctional Facility. He appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Walter Bruchhau-sen, J., refusing to disclose the contents of a pre-sentence report or to reduce his sentence further. For reasons set forth below, we remand the case to the…
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