Legal Opinion
Burns v. Wilson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 15, 1953No. 422PublishedCited by 622 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtChief Justice Vinson
Tried separately by Air Force courts-martial on the Island of Guam, petitioners were found guilty of murder and rape and sentenced to death. The sentences were confirmed by the President, and petitioners exhausted all remedies available to them under the Articles of War for review of their convictions by the military tribunals. They then filed petitions for writs of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
In these applications petitioners alleged that they had been denied due process of law in the proceedings which led to their conviction by the…
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