Legal Opinion
HIROTA v. MacARTHUR, GENERAL OF THE ARMY, Et Al.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 7, 1949No. Nos. 239, 240, and 248, MiscPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Per curiam
The petitioners, all residents and citizens of Japan, are being held in custody pursuant to the judgment of a military tribunal in Japan. Two of the petitioners have been sentenced to death, the others to terms of imprisonment. They filed motions in this Court for leave to file petitions for habeas corpus. We set all the motions for hearing on the question of our power to grant the relief prayed and that issue has now been fully presented and argued.
We are satisfied that the tribunal sentencing these petitioners is not a tribunal of the United States. The United States and other allied…
2Cited by12 opinions
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- Hirota v. MacArthurSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1951
- Kinnell v. WarnerDistrict Court, D. Hawaii · 1973
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