Biography
Richard Jeffrey Blair, writing as R. Jeffrey Blair, was a Hawaii draft counselor and Vietnam War draft resister. His first-person account describes FBI arrest on June 9, 1972, confinement at Halawa Jail through the weekend, and release on his own recognizance on June 12. His draft-card prosecution later resulted in a $500 fine on July 2, 1973, rather than imprisonment. The Ninth Circuit reversed the conviction because proof of mutilated cards did not establish the destruction charged in the indictment.
Richard Jeffrey Blair, writing as R. Jeffrey Blair, was a Hawaii draft counselor and Vietnam War draft resister. His first-person account describes FBI arrest on June 9, 1972, confinement at Halawa Jail through the weekend, and release on his own recognizance on June 12. His draft-card prosecution later resulted in a $500 fine on July 2, 1973, rather than imprisonment. The Ninth Circuit reversed the conviction because proof of mutilated cards did not establish the destruction charged in the indictment.
Actual pretrial custody June 9–12, 1972 at Halawa Jail. Subsequently fined $250 on each of two counts, $500 total, on July 2, 1973. No custodial sentence imposed. Ninth Circuit memorandum,No 73-2495, reproduced in Appendix 8 reverses the conviction.
