I remember being taught in no uncertain terms, that we were to refuse any unlawful orders, lest we be held to be as responsible as the persons who gave them. The express example that we were given had to do with prisoner handling.
I remember being taught in no uncertain terms, that we were to refuse any unlawful orders
fine - BUT WHO GAVE THE ORDERS? If you agree they were unlawful, we need to know who gave them, and were the order part of a policy. If the orders were - as you say - "unlawful," then this trailer-park 21-year-old shouldn't be the only one of trial, don't you think?