Were the Good Conduct and Clemency Programs Ultra. Xxxxx? XxXxxx created the good-conduct program and the Advisory Board for War Criminals on the basis of a legal opinion by the HICOG General Counsel that he had the authority to reduce the sentences imposed by the NMTs.171 It is far from clear, though, whether that opinion was correct. First, Law No. 10 may not have authorized General Xxxx‘s review of the NMT sentences, much less XxXxxx‘s good-conduct and clemency programs. Second, it is unlikely that XxXxxx had the right to create those programs without the assent of the High Commission as a whole.
