United States v. Jeffrey Hale Purvis

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

Jeffrey Hale Purvis appeals from a judgment of conviction and a sentence of three years in prison by Judge Matthew T. Abruzzo of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York for violating section 12(a) of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, 1 50 U.S.C. App. § 462(a), by refusing to submit to induction into the armed forces'. Appellant’s refusal was based upon his claim that the selective service authorities should have exempted him, as a conscientious objector, from all military service rather than from combatant service alone. For…