Federal Jury Finds David Reed Guilty of 2 Draft Law Violations

David A. Reed '68, a pacifist, was found guilty yesterday in Boston's U.S. District Court of two violations the Selective Service Laws -- failure to appear for a physical examination and failure to report for induction.

Judge Andrew A. Craffey will impose sentence in two weeks; it could be as high as five years for each charge.

The jury of eight men and four women deliberated for only a half-hour before returning a verdict. The entire trial took only 90 minutes and only one witness, Mrs. Helen M. Beatty, clerk of the Milton-Randolph (Mass.) Local Board was called. Reed, who withdrew from Harvard last winter and is a member of the New England Committee for Non-Violent Action, conducted his own defense.

Reed did not attempt to contest the government's charges and merely read two letters he had written to the draft board outlining his objections to the Vietnam war and his refusal to participate in the Selective Service System.

Classified 1-A

Mrs. Beatty testified that Reed had been reclassified as "1-A" (he had been "2-S") after the Local Board had learned that he was no longer at Harvard. His failure to report for the physical examination resulted in the board's ordering him to appear for induction last May 25.

Reed is the third member of the CNVA to be found guilty of draft law violations in the Boston Federal Court this fall.