Posted on 04/23/2008 6:17:36 PM PDT by RedRover
WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii — The lawyer for a Hawaii-based soldier accused of killing an unarmed Iraqi last year said the defense won't contest that his client shot the man.
But defense attorney Frank Spinner said the shooting was neither unlawful nor premeditated.
Contradicting the prosecution in the court-martial of Sgt. 1st Class Trey Corrales, of San Antonio, Spinner said the soldier didn't order a subordinate in his platoon to shoot the Iraqi, whose name has not been disclosed.
The court-martial is expected to last at least through this week at Wheeler Army Airfield on Oahu.
Corrales has pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder.
I keep on PRAYING, PRAYING AND PRAYING!!
Sorry, bhfred, I was confusing two cases. The “Why, Mister, Why, Mister”, was the exact same thing that Awad in the Hamdania, Pendleton 8 case, supposedly said before he was shot. It just seemed odd to see the exact quote in two totally unrelated cases.
People need to start asking the supposed fellow soldier witnesses just how many of them were accused of having kiddie porn on their IPODS or computers....
big hint there....
“WHY MISTER, WHY MISTER”...just like Hamdania.
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