United States ex rel. Brooks v. Clifford

HEMPHILL, District Judge.

Before the court is the habeas corpus petition of Peter S. Brooks, a Private in the Army of the United States of America. Brooks insists that he is unlawfully restrained of his liberty, and, illegally detained by Respondents at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, as a Member of the Armed Forces of the United States, despite his conscientious objection to participation in the Armed Services in any capacity. He states that his Fifth Amendment freedoms have been violated absent due process of law in that he never received the recommendation of a Captain Browning (with whom he…