Military Law
Ex-Marine Acquitted in Four Iraq Shooting Deaths
Posted 4 hours, 51 minutes ago
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A former Marine sergeant has been acquitted of the shooting deaths of four unarmed Iraqi prisoners.
The Riverside, Calif., jury deliberated less than six hours before acquitting Jose Luis Nazario yesterday of voluntary manslaughter in the 2004 deaths in Fallujah, the Los Angeles Times reports. Jury forewoman Ingrid Wicken said there was not enough evidence for a conviction, the Associated Press reports.
Other former Marines had testified they heard the gunshots but did not see the shootings. Jurors cited the lack of eyewitness testimony or forensic evidence and said prosecutors had not even been able to supply the names of the dead men. They also spoke of the chaos of war.
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