Court Opinion

ID: 9460572
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:54:56.861855+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:41.502412
License: Public Domain

RUSSELL E. SMITH, District Judge
(concurring):
I concur in the result.
I do not agree that the local board treated defendant badly.
I think that the intent of the state director in issuing the reclassification order is not relevant. Once there has been a conviction for failure to obey a valid administrative order I think an administrative officer is without power for whatever reason to affect the conviction by altering or vacating the order. The statute, not the order, created the offense, and once a valid order was disobeyed then the state was violated and the offense was complete. See United States v. Hark, 320 U.S. 531, 536, 64 S. Ct. 359, 88 L.Ed. 290 (1944).