United States v. Cassidy

REYNOLDS, Chief Judge.

This is a selective service case wherein Kevin Gregg Cassidy is charged by indictment with wilfully and knowingly failing to submit to induction into the Armed Forces in violation of § 462, Title 50 Appendix, United States Code. A plea of not guilty was entered, and the matter has been tried before me.

The facts in this case are largely without dispute, and I find them to be as follows. On February 20, 1969, Kevin Gregg Cassidy, a draft counsellor who was classified 2-S, informed his local draft board that he was unwilling to cooperate any longer with the selective…