Showing posts with label Fort Bragg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Bragg. Show all posts
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Military jury has acquitted a veteran U.S. special forces soldier of killing an unarmed Afghan man and then cutting off one of his ears.
Jurors at Fort Bragg, N.C., deliberated four hours before clearing Master Sgt. Joseph D. Newell, 39, of Tecumseh, Mich., who was charged with premeditated murder and mutilating a dead body. He could have been imprisoned for life.
Military jury has acquitted a veteran U.S. special forces soldier of killing an unarmed Afghan man and then cutting off one of his ears.The man he shot had been detained after a vehicle stop outside Hyderabad, Afghanistan, last March 5. Checking the man's cell phone, Newell, with the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, found a picture of a Russian machine gun commonly used by Taliban forces.Newell testified he shot the man twice after he lunged at him, but the prosecution said eye-witness accounts proved the man did not constitute a threat and that he did not lunge at Newell.
Military jury has acquitted a veteran U.S. special forces soldier of killing an unarmed Afghan man and then cutting off one of his ears.The man he shot had been detained after a vehicle stop outside Hyderabad, Afghanistan, last March 5. Checking the man's cell phone, Newell, with the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group, found a picture of a Russian machine gun commonly used by Taliban forces.Newell testified he shot the man twice after he lunged at him, but the prosecution said eye-witness accounts proved the man did not constitute a threat and that he did not lunge at Newell.
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