Legal Opinion
United States v. Dickenson
United States Court of Military Appeals
Decided September 30, 1955No. 6238PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court
ROBERT E. Quinn, Chief Judge:
This case concerns the conduct of an American soldier in a Chinese prisoner of war camp in Korea. We take judicial notice of the fact that many prisoners were subjected to severe brutality or to tremendous psychological pressures which made them do and say things which they would otherwise have avoided. The British have reported that the Chinese used the same methods on British prisoners of war. “Treatment of British Prisoners of War in Korea,” Ministry of Defence (1955). However, of the fourteen assignments of error set out in the accused’s…
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