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Posted on 06/12/2007 4:12:45 PM PDT by radar101
CAMP PENDLETON ---- A lance corporal charged with murder in the death of three Iraqi brothers in 2005 passed a polygraph examination when asked whether he was being truthful when he said the first man he shot inside a home was holding an AK-47 assault rifle, according to testimony heard this morning.
The test administered last spring showed there was no apparent deception in the account provided by Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt, said Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent Nayda Mannle.
Sharratt is charged with three counts of unpremeditated murder for his role in the deaths of two dozen Iraqi civilians following a roadside bombing on the morning of Nov. 19, 2005. The 22-year-old rifleman from the base's 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment could face life in prison if ordered to trial and convicted.
Mannle's testimony came on the second day of Sharratt's hearing. She eventually became the lead agent for the Haditha investigation, which resulted in Sharratt and two other enlisted men from the battalion facing homicide charges and three of its officers being charged with dereliction of duty for failing to investigate the incident.
While acknowledging that the polygraph did not indicate that Sharratt's account to investigators was deceptive, Mannle also testified that the account the Marines gave of what happened when four homes were stormed by the Marines did not match what some family members of the slain Iraqis said occurred.
Sharratt is accused of killing the three brothers inside the last of four homes that were assaulted by Marines after a roadside bombing that killed a lance corporal and injured two others.
His attorneys are trying to show inconsistencies in the investigation, focusing many of their questions on why government agents did not pursue full background reports on the men who died inside the fourth home, particularly one man who worked on the Jordanian border and may have had several Jordanian passports in his possession.
Mannle said that probably should have been done and agreed that agents can still try to piece that information together. But she also said that none of the 24 victims who died in Haditha had any known ties to the insurgency.
"We ran them through the database and all came up as negative for insurgents," she said during telephonic testimony from an office in the Pentagon.
The defense also is trying to show that forensic evidence taken from a bedroom where men died inside the fourth house is inconsistent with an account given by those men's surviving family members, who told investigators the men were herded into that room and executed in rapid succession.
For a full report on Tuesday's court proceedings, see Wednesday's North County Times.
tact staff writer Mark Walker at (760) 740-3529 or mlwalker@nctimes.com.
Yet another media-contrived “scandal” designed to tar the President (who is doing quite a good job on his own) and demoralize the troops and their supporters. Bastards.
Haditha PING
he passed cause he was not lying.
Give me an F'ing break! This is disgusting that these people are even on trial.
Thanks for the post. Looks good.
They are getting paid $2500 per dead relative. Plus, According to the Koran, it is O K to lie to lie to an infidel.
Like the Ramos-Campeon farce, in that case, the Government took the word of a twice-caught dope smuggler over our lawmen.
Must be a Bush Administration thing.
No kidding! If that's the case why didn't the NCIS give those family members polygraph tests?
Thanks for the ping, pissant.
Paging Doc Savage...
I’m sure this will make the front page of the NYTimes /sarc
As long as he’s feeling like twisting arms lately, why doesn’t he pop on over to the Pentagon to twist a few more in defense of these marines.
WHAT?!
MANNLE SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH DERELICTION OF DUTY FOR FAILING TO INVESTIGATE THE F'N ENEMY.
OMG
Atleast the polygraph was admissible at his hearing since they are inadmissible in civilian trials. This can only help the Marine.
Not necessarily. There's a good reason why polygraph results are not admissible in court - it's because they essentially measure how nervous you are. If you are a good liar, you can pass - and if you're nervous because you're being interrogated by the cops, you will fail.
This is not to say that the Marines are actually guilty. This only says that polygraph results are meaningless junk science.
Time, yet again, for one of my handy diagrams...
Nayda Manle ,Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent .
God help these poor marines. They have a woman against them who has the Fitzgerald complex. She has to hang somebody or look bad.
“We ran them through the database and all came up as negative for insurgents,” she said during telephonic testimony from an office in the Pentagon.
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Of course it is an absolute certainty that they have every insurgent in their database.
and she is testifying in a murder case by telephone from her office in the Pentagon?? Whats with that?
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