United States v. Gillam Kerley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
A jury convicted Gillam Kerley of having “refuse[d] registration ... in the armed forces,” 50 U.S.C.App. § 462(a), and Judge Shabaz sentenced him to three years in prison and imposed a fine of $10,000. Having been born in 1961, Kerley was required to register during the eight-day period preceding August 3, 1980. In a series of letters to the Director and the General Counsel of the Selective Service System in 1981 and 1982, Kerley said he had decided not to register. “I have not registered with Selective Service____ To have registered for the draft in July 1980 would have…
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