Medical Case (NMT)

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Both dealing with individual criminality and establishing precedent for informed consent to medical experimentation, the medical case of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, often called the Doctors' Trial,

Timetable

  • Indictment filed: 25 October 1946
  • Indictment served: 5 November 1946
  • Arraignment: 21 November 1946
  • Prosecution opening statement: 9 December 1946
  • Defense opening statement: 29 January 1947
  • Prosecution closing statement: 14 July 1947
  • Defense closing statements: 14—18 July 1947
  • Judgment: 19 August 1947
  • Sentences: 20 August 1947
  • Affirmation of sentences by Military Commander of the United States Zone of Occupation: 25 November 1947
  • Order of the United States Supreme Court denying writ of habeas corpus: 16 February 1948
  • Imposition of death sentences: 2 June 1948

Defendants

References