Det danske Fredsakademi

Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 29. juni 1970 / Time Line June 29, 1970

28. juni 1970, 30. juni 1970

06/29/1970
Vietnamkrigen
Den amerikanske højesteret accepterer militærnægtelse, der ikke er religiøst begrundet:
'The Government seeks to appeal to this Court a decision by a District Court in Massachusetts holding that appellee Sisson could not be criminally convicted for refusing induction into the Armed Forces. The District Court's opinion was bottomed on what that court under- [399 U.S. 267 , 270] stood to be Sisson's rights of conscience as a nonreligious objector to the Vietnam war, but not wars in general, under the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses of the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The District Court's primary conclusion, reached after a full trial, was that the Constitution prohibited 'the application of the 1967 draft act to Sisson to require him to render combat service in Vietnam' because as a 'sincerely conscientious man,' Sisson's interest in not killing in the Vietnam conflict outweighed 'the country's present need for him to be so employed,' 297 F.Supp. 902, 910 (1969).
The District Court characterized its own decision as an arrest of judgment, and the Government seeks review here pursuant to the 'arresting judgment' provision of the Criminal Appeals Act, 18 U.S.C. 3731, an Act that narrowly limits the Government's right to appeal in criminal cases to certain types of decisions'....
Kilde: UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. John Heffron SISSON, Jr. No. 305. Argued Jan. 20 and 21, 1970. Decided June 29, 1970.[ U. S. v. Sisson.
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