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- Title: United States v. Watkins
- Author : Second Circuit Circuit Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 03, 1947
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
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The relator Knupfer, a native born German who became a citizen of the United States through naturalization on November 25, 1930, was thereafter convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York of engaging in a conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 301 et seq. While he was imprisoned under that conviction, an action was brought against him by complaint on behalf of the United States filed on February 3, 1945, in the Eastern District of New York, which sought to denaturalize him. On June 1, 1943, he filed an answer denying the allegations of the complaint and praying that it be dismissed. On August 16, 1943, he sent letters to the United States Attorney and the Clerk of the Eastern District saying: "I hereby withdraw my answer although not guilty of the charges. * * * I now demand that you cancell my citizenship rights on the grounds that this administration has unconstitutionally denied my rights, persecuted, defamed and illegally incarcerated me. * * * I do not care to contest the accusations because where there is no honor there can be no justice * * *" Thereafter, on September 14, 1943, a decree was entered by the court in the Eastern District cancelling Knupfers letters of citizenship. This decree was entered on his default without any notice of motion by the United States Attorney.