Is Socrates Victim of His Own Thoery

In Plato’s dialogue Crito, Socrates accepts the death sentence imposed on him, even though he denies his alleged guilt and is known to have lived a morally virtuous

life. Socrates also articulates an understanding of law and of the obligation to obey the law in the Crito. Was Socrates the victim of a faulty theory of law? Could

either natural law or legal positivism save him? Or was he right to believe that he had to accept his punishment?