Judgements in Nuremberg Lawyers Trial

Former senior Reich prosecutor of the People's Court, Ernst Lautz, during his sentence. In the trial against 14 Nazi lawyers, the presiding judge James T. Brand did not pronounce a single death sentence, on 4 December 1947. Franz Schlegelberger, Herbert Klemm, Oswald Rothaug, and Rudolf Oeschey were sentenced to life-imprisonment. Ernst Lautz, Wolfgang Mettgenberg, Wilhelm von Ammon, and Gunther Joel were each sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Kurt Rothenberger received seven years imprisonment, Josef Altstotter five years. Paul Barnickel, Hans Petersen, Gunther Nebelung, and Hermann Cuhorst were acquitted of charge

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