Word: toth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Legal Sanctuary? Judge Tamm made his ruling on the basis of the recent decision in the case of Robert Toth (TIME, Nov. 21), in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that ex-servicemen cannot be tried by court-martial for crimes committed while in the armed forces. If the military thus has no jurisdiction over civilians who were at one time in the service, said Judge Tamm, then the military obviously has no jurisdiction over "persons who were civilians all the time...
...Sept. 1952, Robert W. Toth, while serving as sergeant of the guard at a U.S. Air Force bomb dump in Taegu, Korea, was involved in the killing of a South Korean civilian named Bang Soon Kil. But before murder charges were brought against him, Toth was honorably discharged from the Air Force and went to work in a Pittsburgh steel mill. Five months later Civilian Toth was taken into custody by air police to stand court-martial for the murder. Toth's arrest brought on an important and far-reaching struggle between the civil and military systems of justice...
...Veteran Robert Toth was arrested by air police in Pittsburgh in 1953 and flown to Korea to stand trial on a charge of murder committed while he was in the Air Force (TIME, Aug. 31, 1953). Before the court-martial could be called, however, the Air Force was forced to return him to the U.S., and Toth was released under a writ of habeas corpus. His case, a test of the military's authority over some 21 million living veterans, is pending before the Supreme Court...
...Flight Plan. In Green Bay, Wis., State Reformatory Inmate Robert Toth, 18, volunteered for civil defense ground observer duty, quickly abandoned his midnight post to sneak to the reformatory plumbing shop, put together 20 feet of pipe sections, scaled the wall and disappeared into the night...
...Serviceman Bob Toth, flown back to Korea to face an Air Force court-martial for murder, was returned because...