UNITED STATES EX REL. SIELEN v. HOCKING

No. 70-C-437.

318 F.Supp. 350 (1970)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Private Bernard J. SIELEN, Petitioner, v. Captain Darwin D. HOCKING, Commanding Officer, Fifth United States Army, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, Commanding Officer, United States Army Reserve Components Center, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and Stanley R. Resor, Secretary of the Army, Respondents.

United States District Court, E. D. Wisconsin.

August 28, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greenberg, Karp & Heitzman, by Sander Karp, Milwaukee, Wis., for petitioner.

David J. Cannon, U.S.Atty., by Terry E. Mitchell and Richard P. Broder, Asst. U.S.Attys., Milwaukee, Wis., for respondents.


DECISION and ORDER

MYRON L. GORDON, District Judge.

The petitioner, Sielen, a member of the United States army reserves, has applied for a writ of habeas corpus, challenging his detention in the military service and his orders to report for involuntary active duty. The petitioner contends that he has a conscientious objection to participation in war in any form.

Mr. Sielen was ordered to report for active duty on August 3, 1970, but with the commencement...

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