United States v. Jerry Paul Pritchard

In our limited review of determining whether there is a basis in fact for a local board’s classification, I do not think that we should overlook and not correct possible manifest injustices. In this case the appeal board assigned no reason for its action, other than the overall con-clusory one that defendant was not entitled to be classified as a conscientious objector. The record as I read it shows that the board may have acted on concededly erroneous, and to my mind highly prejudicial, data- — -not simply that which was disputed but essentially correct. I would, therefore, overturn the…