Posted on 03/30/2016 1:21:43 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Attorney Ilan Katz, who is heading the defense team for the soldier who last Thursday shot a wounded terrorist in Hevron, said on Wednesday that the soldier's lawyers will not agree to him being stood on trial for homicide.
In the incident, the soldier was filmed by an Arab activist for the radical leftist NGO B'Tselem shooting a terrorist, who minutes earlier together with an accomplice stabbed and wounded a soldier. The soldier has argued he shot the terrorist over concerns he was moving to detonate a bomb belt that was thought to be hidden under his unseasonable coat.
That version of events was vindicated by a Magen David Adom (MDA) investigative committee, which found concerns that the terrorist had a bomb had not been ruled out. Experts have backed the soldier's actions, and hundreds of protesters have demanded his release.
"I hope that he will not be stood on trial," Katz told Channel 10 in an interview. "But in any case we will not agree to any compromise on (him being charged with) crimes of homicide. There is no basis to accuse him of crimes of manslaughter, at the very most there was a mistake in judgement here."
The attorney noted that in a hearing on Tuesday to extend the soldier's detention the murder clause was never even raised by the prosecutors, even though in a hearing last Friday the soldier was accused of murder.
"In the first request to extend the detention (last Friday) it was specifically written that the soldier is suspected of murder charges. Yesterday it was written: 'illegal use of a weapon,' and 'illegal shooting.'"
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Terrorists aren’t human beings. There should be free right to shoot them on sight.
“But in any case we will not agree to any compromise on (him being charged with) crimes of homicide...
did I miss something? Do defense attorneys have to agree with a charge for it to be made?
anyway, they already lowered the charges and this will be dropped sooner than later, I think.
Well, you see in Odungoville, the mooslim advisory committee
in the White Hut makes sure young Americans who bravely go when duty calls, lower their odds of surviving. It’s
Odungos way
...of course if I was awake before my coffee, I would have realized it was an Israeli..., think the words channel 10 threw me
If defense disagrees, and prosecution makes the charge anyway, defense can move to dismiss that charge, and if the court won’t dismiss, they can appeal.
What? You mean Odungo can’t do what he can to make sure young Israelis don’t survive, either? To whom do you think Bibi and Yaalon were loudly denouncing the young soldier? Not the Israeli public, which is furious, and certainly not the Arabs, who hate Israel whether they’re fair or not.
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