United States v. Steven Antone Camara

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was convicted in a jury-waived trial of refusing to comply with his draft board’s order to report for induction, in violation of 50 U.S.C. App. § 462. His major contention is that his refusal to be inducted was not wilful, since he alleges that he reasonably believed, under the law of this circuit prior to Ehlert v. United States, 402 U. S. 99, 91 S.Ct. 1319, 28 L.Ed.2d 625 (1971), that his local board acted illegally in refusing to reopen his classification to consider his post-induction order claim for conscientious objector status.

On June 25, 1970, appellant…