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Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Posted on 02/01/2016 2:56:07 PM PST by Olog-hai
Four former Blackwater security contractors found guilty in a deadly Baghdad shooting appealed their convictions on Monday, saying a key witness against them had changed his testimony after the trial and that prosecutors lacked jurisdiction to even bring the case.
The appeals, long expected, represent the latest legal volley in a criminal case that's spanned years in Washington's federal court and that concluded with guilty verdicts following a months-long trial in 2014.
Nicholas Slatten is serving a life sentence on a charge of first-degree murder. Three other former guards - Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Herd - were found guilty of manslaughter and firearms charges carrying mandatory 30-year sentences. ...
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Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
a key witness against them had changed his testimony after the trial and that prosecutors lacked jurisdiction to even bring the case
odumbo’s legacy: Border Patrol agents and Blackwater security contractors in jail for shooting and/or killing murderous scum.
Wow, one life sentence and three 30 year sentences all based on an Iraqi traffic cop’s version of events in a war zone.
Obama’s Justice Department isn’t worthy of the name.
Let that be a lesson to anyone in a war zone who thinks about leaving witnesses.
Its exactly what the left wants, a military incapable of winning.
They are thinking of changing it to Dept. of Social Justice.
The entire court that pulled this shit...
In fact, every G*D DAMNED civilian court that played civilian law games in a war zone, so far outside their fracking jurisdiction they couldn’t even lay eyes on the scene and survive, should be...
Death to the Rule of Law.
That’s what these *** stains are accomplishing. Nothing more. Nothing less.
That’s the one thing they’re ahead of schedule on.
2017 can’t come soon enough.
Well put.
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