United States of America, and v. Mathew Dusty Wroblewski, Jr.

Appellant was convicted for failing to report for induction as ordered (50 U.S.C. App. § 462). At trial he attempted to introduce evidence to show that he was a conscientious objector but such evidence was ruled inadmissible. The trial judge’s refusal to hear the conscientious objector claim was proper since appellant had never presented that claim to his draft board and thus had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies. Lockhart v. United States, 9th Cir., 420 F.2d 1143.

Appellant also argues that he was denied due process of law in that his local board’s clerical employees gave him bad…