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Title: United States v. Kozminski
Author : United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit
Release Date : January 16, 1987
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 99 KB

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A jury convicted the defendants, a dairy farmer and his wife, of two federal crimes: (1) "willfully holding to involuntary servitude" two retarded farm workers, and (2) conspiring to deprive the workers of their constitutional right to be free from "involuntary servitude" as guaranteed by the Thirteenth Amendment. Their son was also convicted on the conspiracy charge. On appeal the defendants contend that the court below erred in broadly defining "involuntary servitude" to include purely psychological coercion in addition to slavery, peonage, serfdom and other forms of physical or legal coercion. They also argue that the court below erred in admitting expert psychological testimony tending to show that the two victims were held in servitude through "involuntary conversion" or "brainwashing." After reconsidering the legislative development and purpose of the two nineteenth century criminal statutes in question, we agree with the defendants that the court below erred in defining involuntary servitude too broadly, and we agree that the psychological testimony should not have been admitted.