Sentence examples for draft conviction from inspiring English sources
A1 Voiding a Draft Conviction President Clinton pardoned a political scientist, Preston King, who was convicted of draft evasion in 1961.
He is appealing his draft evasion conviction on religious grounds.
President Trump said he was "doing recommendations on Muhammad Ali". In 1971, the Supreme Court overturned Ali's draft evasion conviction, and President Jimmy Carter issued a blanket amnesty in 1977.
For nearly four years, he lived freely in Chicago while the appeal of his draft evasion conviction made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In the HBO TV movie Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), Plummer was cast as John Marshall Harlan, a member of the Supreme Court when it overturned the boxer's draft-dodging conviction.
Frears's additional television work includes the Cold War thriller Fail Safe (2000) and the HBO film Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013), a drama involving the legal battle over the boxer's draft-dodging conviction during the Vietnam War.
US President Donald Trump has said he may pardon boxing legend Muhammad Ali for a draft-dodging conviction, even though it has already been overturned.
It is an absolutely cardinal principle of the criminal law that you need to actually violate the law as drafted before a conviction can be entered.
Shortly after Ali's conviction for draft evasion, Jim Brown, the legendary Browns running back who had recently retired, called on some of the most influential black athletes of that era to meet with Ali in Cleveland.
Do you remember?: On this day in 1971, Muhammad Ali won a four-year legal battle to overturn his 1967 conviction for draft evasion in an 8-0 vote by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The same year the Supreme Court tossed Ali's conviction on draft evasion in 1971, Trump officially took over the Trump Organization and would spend the next three decades wheeling and dealing in the real estate and business world buying and plopping down casinos, hotels and golf courses throughout the country.
