The Nation - News from May 4, 1986

Harry Claiborne, the first federal judge convicted of a felony while sitting on the bench, has been ordered to surrender to authorities by May 16 to begin serving a two-year prison term for tax evasion. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals filed an order in Reno that requires Claiborne to begin serving his prison term at Maxwell Field Air Base in Montgomery, Ala. The judge was convicted by a federal jury of charges that he willfully failed to report $106,000 in income on his 1979 and 1980 tax returns.