Goodman waited until the last moments of the trial to reveal his thinking, but when he did it was a stinging rebuke to the prosecution: “It is shocking to the conscience that an American citizen be confined on the ground of disloyalty, and then, while so under duress and restraint, be compelled to serve in the armed forces, or be prosecuted for not yielding to such compulsion.” And with that, in front of a stunned courtroom, he dismissed the charges against all of the Nisei resisters standing in front of him. They were free, but free only to return to confinement behind barbed wire at Tule
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