Editing Iva Toguri D'Aquino (section)

===Treason trial===
[[Image:FBI file of Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino.jpg|thumb|[[FBI]] synopsis of trial]]

D'Aquino was charged by [[United States Attorney|federal prosecutors]] with the crime of treason for "adhering to, and giving aid and comfort to, the Imperial Government of Japan during World War II"'. Her trial on eight "overt acts" of treason began on July 5, 1949, at the [[Federal District Court]] in San Francisco.<ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|151}} It was the costliest and longest trial in American history at the time.<ref>{{Cite book| last = Okihiro | first = Gary Y. | title = Encyclopedia of Japanese American Internment | publisher = Greenwood | year = 2013 | page = 28| isbn = 978-0313399152}}</ref> D'Aquino was defended by a team of attorneys led by [[Wayne M. Collins|Wayne Mortimer Collins]], a prominent advocate of Japanese-American rights.<ref name=sfjhw>{{cite web| title=Japanese Americans, the Civil Rights Movement and Beyond| url=http://www.nddcreative.com/sfjhw/sfjhw_pdf/sfjhw_sign2.pdf| access-date=April 10, 2009| archive-date=July 14, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714161530/http://www.nddcreative.com/sfjhw/sfjhw_pdf/sfjhw_sign2.pdf| url-status=dead}}</ref> Collins enlisted the help of Theodore Tamba, who became one of D'Aquino's closest friends, a relationship which continued until his death in 1973.<ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|231}} One of the defense witnesses was Charles Cousens, who himself had been acquitted of treason by Australian authorities in November 1946.<ref name=ADoB>{{cite book | title=Australian Dictionary of Biography | chapter=Cousens, Charles Hughes (1903–1964) | publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University | chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cousens-charles-hughes-9842 | access-date=October 4, 2020}}</ref>

On September 29, 1949, the jury found D'Aquino guilty on a single charge: Count VI, which stated, "That on a day during October, 1944, the exact date being to the Grand Jurors unknown, said defendant, at Tokyo, Japan, in a broadcasting studio of The Broadcasting Corporation of Japan, did speak into a microphone concerning the loss of ships."<ref name=fbi/> She was fined $10,000, given a 10-year prison sentence, and stripped of her citizenship, with Toguri's attorney Collins lambasting the verdict as "Guilty without evidence".<ref name="A&E"/><ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|219}} She was sent to the [[Federal Prison Camp, Alderson|Federal Reformatory for Women]] at [[Alderson, West Virginia]].<ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|224}} She was [[parole]]d after serving six years and two months, released January 28, 1956,<ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|225}} and moved to [[Chicago]].<ref name="Duus-1979"/>{{RP|226}}