United States v. Kaplan

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION AND ORDER

GIGNOUX, District Judge.

Michael Joseph Kaplan was indicted for refusing to submit to induction into the armed forces of the United States in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462(a) (1967). He has been tried by the Court without a jury. The principal and decisive issue presented is whether defendant’s Selective Service record reveals any “basis in fact” for the denial of his request for classification as a conscientious objector. 50 U.S.C. App. § 460(b) (3); Estep v. United States, 327 U.S. 114, 122-123, 66 S.Ct. 423, 90 L.Ed. 567 (1946); Dickinson v. United States,…