United States v. Bruce Andrew Baechler

In his trial for failure to register on March 29, 1973, in North Carolina, as required by the Military Selective Service Act, 50 App. U.S.C. § 453, Bruce Andrew Baechler maintained that the statute was invalid under the due process doctrine of the Fifth Amendment 1 and the religious freedom guaranty of the First Amendment.

The jury found him guilty on April 24, 1974, and he now appeals the District Court’s conviction. We affirm. He insisted that the Act denied him equal protection of the law, first, in requiring males to register but exempting females, and, secondly, in selecting him for…