Legal Opinion
United States v. Douglas Alan Wilson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 30, 1973No. 72-2199PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHOY, Circuit Judge:
Douglas Alan Wilson was convicted after a nonjury trial of refusal to submit to induction into the armed forces in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462(a). He was sentenced to three years in the custody of the Attorney General. Wilson raises a number of challenges to his conviction, but we find only one of merit. We reverse.
FACTS
Wilson registered for the draft in 1968 and was classified I-A on January 6, 1970. That same month Wilson was hospitalized at the Memorial Hospital of Glendale where, because of an acute narcotics overdose and subsequent respiratory failure, a…
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