United States v. Toussie, No. 67 Cr. 183
| Court | U.S. District Court — Eastern District of New York |
| Writing for the Court | Michael Rosen, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Joseph P. Hoey, U. S. Atty., of counsel) for the Government |
| Citation | 280 F. Supp. 473 |
| Parties | UNITED STATES of America, v. Robert I. TOUSSIE. UNITED STATES of America, v. Samuel R. TOUSSIE, Defendant. |
| Docket Number | 67 Cr. 184.,No. 67 Cr. 183 |
| Decision Date | 30 August 1967 |
280 F. Supp. 473
UNITED STATES of America,
v.
Robert I. TOUSSIE.
UNITED STATES of America,
v.
Samuel R. TOUSSIE, Defendant.
Nos. 67 Cr. 183, 67 Cr. 184.
United States District Court E. D. New York.
August 30, 1967.
Michael Rosen, Brooklyn, N. Y. (Joseph P. Hoey, U. S. Atty., of counsel) for the Government.
Jacob Heller, New York City (Henry G. Singer, Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel) for defendants.
MEMORANDUM and ORDER
DOOLING, District Judge.
Each of the defendants has been indicted for wilfully failing to perform a duty required of him by The Universal Military Training and Service Act of 1948 by wilfully evading and refusing registration by the Selective Service System. Robert Toussie is charged with doing so from June 23, 1959, until February 3, 1967; Samuel Toussie is charged with doing so from May 9, 1952 until February 3, 1967. The indictments were returned on May 4, 1967.
Defendants move to dismiss the indictments on various grounds the most substantial of which is that they are barred by the five year statute of limitations of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 3282; it is argued also that if the statute requiring registration (50 U.S.C. App. Sec. 453) is construed as imposing a continuing duty to register, it is invalid under the Fifth Amendment; * * *
1. The motion to dismiss the indictments as barred by the five year statute of limitations is granted as to the defendant Samuel R. Toussie and denied as to the defendant Robert I. Toussie.
The offense is a continuing one; the man between eighteen and twenty-six does not discharge his duty by failing to register on the day he attains his eighteenth birthday or within five days thereafter; he continues under a duty to present himself for registration as long as he is liable for service in the armed forces (cf. 32 C.F.R. Sec. 1611.7 (c)) and he is liable from eighteen years, six months, until the twenty-sixth anniversary of his birth (50 U.S.C. App. Sec. 454(a)) Hence, it can not be doubted since Fogel v. United States, 5th Cir. 1947, 162 F.2d 54, and United States v. Guertler, 2d Cir. 1945, 147 F.2d 796, 797, that an indictment is timely if found within five years after the last day on which there was a duty to register. The indictment against Robert Toussie is therefore timely if he had not passed the twenty-sixth anniversary of his birth more than five years before the indictment was filed on May 4, 1967. It is inferred that the Government's case is that Robert Toussie was born on...
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