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April 15th,
2009 - Ex-Marine from Pa. Revises Murtha Comment Suit, PA |
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Ex-Marine from Pa. Revises Murtha Comment Suit,
PA By Joe Mandak Associated Press April 15, 2009 Pittsburgh - A former Marine
has revised his defamation suit against U.S. Rep. John Murtha, a day after an
appeals court dismissed a similar lawsuit against the powerful Pennsylvania
Democrat. Noah Geary, the attorney for
former lance corporal Justin Sharratt, says he amended his complaint
Wednesday in response to a federal appeals court ruling Tuesday dismissing a
similar suit filed by Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich of Meriden, Conn. The appeals court dismissed
Wuterich's lawsuit saying Murtha was immune from being sued because he was
acting within the scope of his employment as a Congressman when he accused
Sharratt, Wuterich and other Marines of killing civilians in cold blood in
Haditha, Iraq, in 2005. Sharratt has been cleared by
a military court but Wuterich still faces a military trial on manslaughter
and other charges, though he denies wrongdoing. © 2009 Associated Press. All
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