Many lawyers exploited the law by using pettifoggery to delay sentences, so that the prisoners would be benefited by it.
[3] This was controversial because it would set a case law that would benefit many other military convicted by similar crimes.
Human rights organizations called for demonstrations against the ruling, which were massive.
The Supreme Court reversed its ruling, and requested the Congress to sanction a law that sets a different system of prison release for those crimes than for other ones.
The Court rejected this case in 2018, in light of the new law sanctioned by the Congress.