Cassius Clay? Did he go to jail?

[Kathleen Joy]

Please can someone settle a argument we have at work. In 1967 Cassius Clay,
(before becoming Mohammed Ail) was sentenced to five years imprisonment for
draft evasion.

Can you confirm that he did or did not serve any of this sentence.

Rainbow...@Tesco.Net

[Michael Middleton]

He did not do time, he was unable to box though until is appeal went through.
And if my boxing history knowledge serves me right the US Supreme Court voted
unanimously to overturn it. Ali's only punishment was missing some of his prime
years as a fighter.

MIKE
"The harder you train in the gym the less you bleed in the ring"

[kluscombe]

 
 

Kathleen Joy schrieb:

The then "Cassius Clay never went to jail,the sentence was overturned at a later date.i dont remember when.
           Keith
 

[EZRA MICHAEL L]

Michael Middleton (bgmid...@aol.com) wrote:
: He did not do time, he was unable to box though until is appeal went through.

Although Ali was convicted of draft evasion he did not do time. However,
the Supreme Court never overturned Ali's conviction, because they feared
a rash of phony conscientous objector claims in light of what would be
a precedent to allow Muslims in America conscientous objector status. I
think the Supreme Court voted 3-3 with one abstain on Ali's draft case.
However, the voted 7-0 to set him free from the technical standpoint that
the Draft Board did not give him proper notice of his reclassification.
The Supreme Court did not want to set a precedent with Ali's case, but
they did not want him in jail, so they found a technicality on which to
release him.

Mike

[Stdann]

>Please can someone settle a argument we have at work. In 1967 Cassius Clay,
>(before becoming Mohammed Ail) was sentenced to five years imprisonment for
>draft evasion.

Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali in 1964, immediately after the first Liston
fight.

[jbfrey]

Stdann wrote in message <19991115034550...@ng-fv1.aol.com>...

never went to jail, out on appeal until the decsion was turned over

[ghetto.fl...@gmail.com]

On Sunday, November 14, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Kathleen Joy wrote:
> Please can someone settle a argument we have at work. In 1967 Cassius Clay,
> (before becoming Mohammed Ail) was sentenced to five years imprisonment for
> draft evasion.
>

> Can you confirm that he did or did not serve any of this sentence.
>
> Rainbow...@Tesco.Net

He did no time. "The Supreme Court found the government had failed to properly specify why Ali's application had been denied, thereby requiring the conviction to be overturned. A unanimous decision (8–0), "the court said the record shows that [Ali's] beliefs are founded on tenets of the Muslim religion as he understands them." from wikipedia

cliftz

[Brian Lambsky]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 12:00:53 -0700 (PDT), ghetto.fl...@gmail.com
wrote:

This is what they had for that trouble-making, uppity nigger Clay

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2053/2482883768_e5e9e7b222_b.jpg