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'American Sniper' Trial: Verdict Reached in Double Murder Case [GUILTY!]
ABC News ^ | Feb 24, 2015, 10:07 PM ET | MEGHAN KENEALLY

Posted on 02/24/2015 7:20:49 PM PST by WhiskeyX

A Texas jury has reached a verdict at the trial of a former Marine accused of murdering famed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield.

The verdict, which has not yet been revealed, will be read this evening.

Eddie Ray Routh has been on trial for the February 2013 murders of Kyle and Littlefield at a Texas gun range.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: chriskyle; kyle; littlefield
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To: heylady
Only took them a little over 2 hours to reach a verdict.

And I understand they took a dinner break during it.

61 posted on 02/25/2015 6:02:33 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DBrow

Hey, it is something to think about....
It’s a little too coincidental that not only the best sniper in the Middle East gets sucker punched but also most of the SEAL team that nailed bin Ladin was shot down too with the admin sending a muzzie to their memorial service in VA Bch....muzzie payback, it seems....


62 posted on 02/25/2015 6:04:25 AM PST by matginzac
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To: WhiskeyX

Guilty as already known by any animal species. What is not known, is who hired him to murder this American Hero. Any guesses?


63 posted on 02/25/2015 6:16:48 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: doorgunner69

>>It will be nice if some hint of motivation comes out.

What motivates a psychotic pot-head?

“This dude is straight-up nuts”
—Chris Kyle


64 posted on 02/25/2015 6:25:11 AM PST by HLPhat (This space is intentionaly blank.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

>>Trying to wrap all goodness around yourself,

Working great for the sheeplefied Coptic folks in Eqypt.

NO SALE, parrot.


65 posted on 02/25/2015 6:29:30 AM PST by HLPhat (This space is intentionaly blank.)
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To: WhiskeyX

I have never heard the details of exactly what happened at the gun range.

Was Kyle and his friend shot from far away? up close? what kind of gun was used, ect

I am just curious if he shot them while they were going out to check the targets


66 posted on 02/25/2015 7:35:51 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: HLPhat

If earth is all your treasure. God WILL kick back at the enemies of those who perished for His sake. Not might... WILL.


67 posted on 02/25/2015 7:51:32 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: proud American in Canada

Thanks for keeping perspective. The outrages of earth are bad, but they are not the worst outrages possible.


68 posted on 02/25/2015 7:53:13 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Only Four days to go until March!


FReepers, Let's GIT_R_DONE!




69 posted on 02/25/2015 8:52:03 AM PST by RedMDer (Keep Free Republic Alive with YOUR Donations!)
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To: HLPhat
"What motivates a psychotic pot-head?"

Whether the muzz put him up to it.

70 posted on 02/25/2015 9:22:46 AM PST by doorgunner69
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To: heylady

2 hours and half of that went to eat supper-—no need to debate this dumbass.


71 posted on 02/25/2015 10:33:26 AM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: matginzac

It was not mentioned in the trial but I have to believe there was a “money” component to killing the two seals. Remember first the dumbass happily drove off Kyle’s truck. But the asshats also had a bounty on Kyle. In his fuzzy brain I expect he thot he’d collect it.

But Kyle’s widow, Taya made an extremely classy move exiting the courtroom. She did a seal trident slap on the door post on the way out. That courtroom will forever be the burial site of a US Navy Seal——Semper Fi.


72 posted on 02/25/2015 10:44:07 AM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Routh held back firing, saving at least a dozen rounds. The two seals emptied their mags, momentarily disarming themselves. Louse shot them point blank, each 5 or 6 times.
It clearly took advance planning to make a move like that , on the Louse’s part, and just another reason for the verdict.


73 posted on 02/25/2015 10:49:25 AM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: cherokee1

Did not hear of Taya Kyle’s move on the door of the courthouse...she’s an outstanding SEAL wife....
I just think, taken as a whole, we have lost rather quickly a lot of the guys who have fought and killed these enemies....it all looks very suspicious.


74 posted on 02/25/2015 11:31:32 AM PST by matginzac
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To: WhiskeyX

According to his father, the guy was on 8 different psych meds and he could tell they were making him worse.

But, if you mention this, you’ll be called a “scientologist” or “anti-science” and silenced. This happens over and over.


75 posted on 02/25/2015 11:34:29 AM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Peace On Earth! Purity of Essence! McCain/Ripper 2016)
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To: matginzac

If any, or even one, of these post-theater GI deaths could be traced to action of the White Hut or any other layer of management it would be a killing offense of the highest order. After WW II for a brief time we saw the need to “train down “ GI’s who had been in intense operations. Somehow that got lost thru the Veetnam years. A long time peeve of mine is that we discharge GI’s without “turning off the switch.” As a result I see guys get careless or start assuming they’re bullet proof and keep living like there’s no tomorrow as they probably did during combat. In this case two SEALS got careless and it cost them. If you could have sat them down in a classroom and proposed the scenario that played out they would have spit out in short order the necessary steps to come out OK. But they seem to have taken eyes off the ball.

In football I talk about “playing between the whistles.” Combat GI’s have the same issue-—shutting down after it’s over, and they don’t all get it done.


76 posted on 02/25/2015 1:14:06 PM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Shadow44

Crazy Don’t Run.

That is one that is going to stick with a jury. Well done by the prosecutor.


77 posted on 02/25/2015 2:52:00 PM PST by Haiku Guy (Every driver with a "Ready For Hillary" bumper sticker had to scrape off a "Obama 12" bumper sticker)
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To: WhiskeyX

pretty obvious verdict given the real lack of a defense


78 posted on 02/25/2015 5:08:43 PM PST by GeronL
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Well, you go ahead and perish at the behest of some Fallible and Uninspired religious Judas goat.

I’ll stand with Thomas Jefferson and the American spirit of ETERNAL HOSTILITY TOWARD EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN.


79 posted on 02/25/2015 5:23:15 PM PST by HLPhat (This space is intentionaly blank.)
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To: HLPhat

Tom Jeff? The guy with the divinity all edited out of his bible? The slave owner?

He hardly has room to talk about tyranny.


80 posted on 02/25/2015 5:23:59 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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