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· 2/15/1864

Ex Parte Vallandigham

Citations

  • 68 U.S. 243
  • 17 L. Ed. 589
  • 1 Wall. 243
  • 1863 U.S. LEXIS 456

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  • although a military commission has “discretion to examine, to decide and sentence,” it is not “judicial . . . in the sense in which judicial power is granted to the courts of the United States”

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Judges: Wayne, After Stating the Case, Much as Precedes

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