Opinion

United States v. Simpson

  • 426 F.2d 286
  • 1970 U.S. App. LEXIS 9304
Court
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Filed
May 11, 1970
Status
Published
Author
Boreman
On the bench
Boreman, Craven, Winter
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 18.4%

The opinion

BOREMAN, Circuit Judge

(concurring) :

Although I dissented in United States v. Broyles, 423 F.2d 1299 (4 Cir. 1970), *287 I feel compelled to follow the decision of the majority of this court and accept as the law of this circuit the rule established in Broyles that a local board must articulate its reasons for denying a conscientious objector classification to a registrant who has presented a prima facie case of entitlement to such classification. Since there was no such articulation in this case, Broyles dictates that the conviction be reversed.

However, even without the binding authority of the majority decision in Broyles , I would have no reason to disagree with the court’s decision today that the registrant here made out a prima facie case of entitlement — to the. 1-0 classification and there is nothing in the registrant’s file to provide a basis in fact for the local board’s denial of the desired classification. The factors which prompted my dissent in Broyles simply are not present here.

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