Original sentence: Judge David Cartter presided over the trial.Surratt was tried in a civilian court of the District of Columbia, instead of a military one, as his mother and the other conspirators had been
Edited sentence: (Ex Parte Milligan)Judge David Cartter presided over the trial.Surratt was tried in a civilian court of the State of Maryland, instead of before a military commission, as his mother and the other conspirators had been.This was necessitated by the recent Supreme Court decision which had declared the trial of civilians before such commissions to be unconstitutional