Review of military trials
In Re Wyatt Redfox, Petitioner
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Wyatt Redfox's petition asks whether a civil court has authority over the military tribunal that tried and sentenced him, and seeks his release through habeas corpus (a prisoner's challenge to being held).
- Who it affects
- Redfox did not get Supreme Court review, and the Court did not decide whether he should be released or whether the military commission had authority to try him.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
It also questions the circuit court's authority to hear his case and the Supreme Court's authority to review the questions.
Redfox sought release through habeas corpus, a prisoner's challenge to being held, and also challenged the courts’ authority to review his case.
Question presented
1. On the facts stated in the petition, does a civil court have authority over a military tribunal? 2. On the facts stated in the petition and appendix, ought the writ of habeas corpus to be issued according to the prayer of said petitioner? 3. On the facts stated in the petition and exhibits, ought the said Redfox to be discharged from custody as in said petition prayed? 4. Whether, upon the facts stated in the petition and appendix, the military commission had jurisdiction legally to try and sentence said Redfox in manner and form, as in said petition and appendix as stated? 5. Whether the Circuit Court had jurisdiction to hear the case there presented? 6. Whether the case sent up here by certificate of appealability was so sent up in conformity with the intention of the act of 1948? In other words, whether this court had jurisdiction of the questions raised by the petitioner?
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