[Byron_the_Aussie]

..evidently the court examining the evidence did not find the photo to be convincing...

Where does it say that?

Steve, before you get too excited at the thought of a rematch with ol' By, I suggest you actually read the story.

[weegee]

The subject of the photo was the body with the "sign" (probably a note that was scrawled) and a cigarette in the mouth. The charge of the cutting off a finger did not hold.

Are you saying that putting a cigarette in the mouth of a dead body was a "war crime"? Placing a note into the shot is a war crime? What about flipping the bird (middle finger) at the body?