James Gordon and Edward L. Brown v. J. T. Willingham, Warden, United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania

Appellants are two of seven American soldiers who were tried together and convicted by a court-martial in West Germany for multiple rape upon a fifteen year old German girl. Appellant Gordon was sentenced by the court to life imprisonment and dishonorable discharge. Appellant Brown was sentenced to imprisonment for forty years and dishonorable discharge. In due course a Board of Review, acting pursuant to Article 66, Uniform Code of Military Justice, 10 U.S.C. § 866, considered various contentions, including these now in issue, and reduced the terms of imprisonment to thirty years in the case…