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Jury acquits soldier in Iraqi shooting death
msnbc ^
| 5/1/2008
| AP
Posted on 05/01/2008 6:24:37 PM PDT by tobyhill
FORT HOOD, Texas - A military jury Thursday acquitted an Army sergeant of premeditated murder in the death of an unarmed Iraqi insurgent who was killed in a village overrun by al-Qaida operatives.
The family of Sgt. Leonardo Trevino gasped, clapped and sobbed after the verdict in his court-martial was read. The 31-year-old from San Antonio also was cleared on charges of attempted murder, solicitation to commit murder and three counts of obstruction of justice.
Trevino said he felt betrayed by the soldiers who testified against him but that he held no ill will toward the Army.
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: courtmartial; iraq; soldier; trevino
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:24:38 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
To: RedRover; Girlene
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:28:39 PM PDT
by
lilycicero
(Tornado sirens............EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK)
To: tobyhill
Poor Murtha must be crushed...:(
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:29:14 PM PDT
by
DanielRedfoot
(1/2 " Typical White Person " and 1/2 " Garlic nosed Italian")
To: fighting for a ranger
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:30:28 PM PDT
by
lilycicero
(Finally America!)
To: tobyhill
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:32:28 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Tagline is in the shop -- being retooled as a hybrid.)
To: lilycicero; 4woodenboats; American Cabalist; AmericanYankee; AndrewWalden; Antoninus; AliVeritas; ..
There's more details about this case at the LINK.
Congratulations to Sergeant Leonardo and Veronica Trevino and to attorney Richard Stevens!!!
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:34:17 PM PDT
by
RedRover
(DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
To: RedRover
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:35:25 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
To: tobyhill; RaceBannon
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:36:38 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: tobyhill; RedRover
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:37:52 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
To: tobyhill
I’m trying to picture a prosecutor charging an American soldier with murder for killing a German (civilian, military, doesn’t really matter) in 1944, but I’m not getting very far with it; my imagination basically isn’t that good.
To: RedRover
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:38:27 PM PDT
by
RDTF
(my worst nightmare is being on jury duty sequestered with 11 liberals)
To: tobyhill
This is how screwed up our society has become. We send our soldiers into a war zone, where distinguishing between ally and enemy is next to impossible and then we charge them with MURDER when they defend themselves.
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:39:56 PM PDT
by
IMissPresidentReagan
("Would it make you feel any better little girl, if they was pushed outta windows?")
To: IMissPresidentReagan
The part moving it to trial is screwed up but this is good evidence that in most part the system does work.
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:43:31 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: tobyhill
From
AP via Yahoo!
the soldiers who reported Trevino didn't come forward until two months after the incident and did so because they were upset with his disciplinary measures. Stevens said they wanted to get rid of him as their leader and had no idea their accusations which did not include murder would result in a court-martial.
If true those two need to face a court-martial.
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:43:59 PM PDT
by
BJClinton
(I will make a fortune when I figure out how to slap someone through standard TCP/IP.)
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: RedRover
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:50:07 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
To: BJClinton
Just put the two back in his unit and tell them that no accusations they give against him in the future will be believed.
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posted on
05/01/2008 6:52:27 PM PDT
by
tobyhill
(The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
To: tobyhill
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posted on
05/01/2008 7:04:58 PM PDT
by
RedRover
(DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
To: tobyhill
Super news! Congratulations, Sgt Trevino!
Kind of troubling about the witnesses against the Sgt. I feel like I ate some rancid kimchee reading the defense attorney’s statement about them. I wonder what happens to those witnesses now?
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posted on
05/01/2008 7:14:26 PM PDT
by
loungeSerf
(Hi-Yield Bureaucrat Farming - Hillary/Obama 08)
To: RedRover
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posted on
05/01/2008 7:16:34 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(Obama is a member of the Far Wright Conspiracy.......)
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