Court Opinion

ID: 9456565
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:56:54.714202+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:35:01.888531
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KILKENNY, Circuit Judge (dissenting) :
In Briggs v. United States, 397 F.2d 370 (9th Cir. 1968), the case on which the majority relies, the inductee received no physical inspection whatsoever. Here, the appellant was not denied a physical inspection. The medical examiner reviewed appellant’s previous medical examination reports, observed the appellant and determined from his own observation and questioning that appellant was in the same physical condition as he was at the time of the original physical examination and was physically qualified for induction. In these circumstances, the failure to require appellant to remove his clothing did not invalidate the inspection. Dillon v. United States, 423 F.2d 1121 (9th Cir. 1970), controls on these facts. Nothing in the Selective Service Regulations requires that an inductee be remeasured as to height and reweighed at the time of the physical inspection.
Where, as here, the inductee has never applied for a conscientious objector classification from the Selective Service System, either prior to issuance of the induction order, after receipt of the order, or even subsequent to his refusal to submit to induction, he cannot urge conscientious objection as a defense to his prosecution for refusal to submit to induction. This claim is groundless. McKart v. United States, 395 U.S. 185, 198, n. 16, 89 S.Ct. 1657, 23 L.Ed.2d 194 (1969) ; Blades v. United States, 407 F.2d 1397 (9th Cir. 1969); Bishop v. United States, 412 F.2d 1064 (9th Cir. 1969). Welsh v. United States, 398 U.S. 333, 90 S.Ct. 1792, 26 L.Ed.2d 308 (1970) and United States v. Coffey, 429 F.2d 401 (9th Cir. 1970), upon which appellant relies, are distinguishable on the facts.
I would affirm.