Kidnapping as a Military Offense

By Washburn, Melburnn, Major

Book Id: WPLBN0000674494
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 3.45 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Kidnapping as a Military Offense
Author:	Washburn, Melburnn, Major
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Armed Forces, Military law
Collections:	Military and Armed Forces Library Collection, Military Law Review
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Publisher:	Government Publication


Citation APA MLA Chicago Melburnn Washburn, B. M. (n.d.). Kidnapping as a Military Offense. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

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Military Law Review

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Excerpt: In 1960, two prisoners escaping from a military stockade at Fort Carson, Colorado, kidnapped a p a r d . Their subsequent trial by general court-martial started a judicial process culminating in holdings by the United States Court of Military Appeals that the offense of kidnapping, in violation of Colorado statutes, is also an offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The opinions in these cases focused the attention of military lawyers on general considerations of kidnapping as an offense triable before military courts under military law.