Legal Opinion
McKart v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 26, 1969No. 403PublishedCited by 1,916 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
Petitioner was indicted for willfully and knowingly failing to report for and submit to induction into the *187Armed Forces of the United States.1 At trial, petitioner’s only defense was that he should have been exempt from military service because he was the “sole surviving son” of a family whose father had been killed in action while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States.2 The District Court held that he could not raise that defense because he had failed to exhaust the administrative remedies provided by the Selective Service System. Accordingly, petitioner was convicted and…
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