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Local commanders are free to apply the Z-grams in their own fashion, and wherever the Navy writ runs, the fresh breezes of innovation and experimentation in listening, in correcting, in treating sailors like adults, are blowing...
...Meadlo was claiming Fifth Amendment protection against selfincrimination. The Government has not attempted to prosecute any of the servicemen now out of the Army. The prosecution offered Meadlo a grant of immunity signed by Major General Orwin Talbott, commander of Fort Benning. Meadlo's lawyer argued that the writ was worthless, that his client might conceivably be tried by some special tribunal, U.S. or foreign, for war crimes...
...national scale, the only power I know of is the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and that is rather strictly confined," Freund said...
...writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require...
President Lincoln attempted to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus by executive order during the first two years of the Civil War. When that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the Congress expressly authorized him to suspend it, with safeguards, for the duration...