Justice Department Fights to Reinstate Bowe Bergdahl’s Court-Martial Conviction
The Justice Department is fighting a federal judge’s decision to dismiss the court-martial sentence of former Staff Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, asking the U.S. District Court of Washington to “leave intact the orders of the military courts.” Bergdahl’s conviction and sentence, which included a dishonorable discharge, monetary fine and demotion to private, should be preserved, the […]
‘You Can’t Let These Bastards Go’: WWII Army Sgt. Ben Ferencz’s Life Finding Justice
In the spring of 1947, former Army sergeant and now Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz pleaded with his boss to add one more case to the docket before the International Military Tribunals set up to try Nazi war crimes shut down. Army Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, who had succeeded Associate Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson as […]
