Evidence in Jap Trials Assailed by Chicagoan News Article
Evidence in Jap Trials Assailed by Chicagoan News Article
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Language | English |
Collection | C.W.J. Phelps Collection |
Box | Box 2 |
Folder | Second Phelps Scrap Book |
Repository | University of Virginia Law Library |
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Reports on the commentary offered by Lt. Robert J. Collins, defense attorney representing Major Yaichi Rikitake at the Yokohama war crimes trials. Rikitake was charged with "the death of 150 allied prisoners." Collins maintained that hearsay evidence admitted through affidavit would never have been allowed in the American court system, but was being allowed at the war crimes trial. Other news items reported on include the sentencing of Isamu Ishihara for torturing American prisoners while serving as an interpreter at Shanghai prisoner camps and the execution of thirteen Japanese convicted of war crimes in Canberra, Australia.
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