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The War Profiteers - War Crimes,
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June 29th,
2009 - Accused Marine Wants Investigator to Remain |
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Accused Marine
Wants Investigator to Remain From North County Times June 29, 2009 Camp Pendleton - A Marine
sergeant accused of killing a prisoner of war during house-to-house fighting
in the Iraq four years ago was in court Monday to fight to keep a member of
his defense team from being transferred of the case. Prosecutors allege Sgt.
Jermaine Nelson and two other Marines killed four unarmed prisoners they had
captured inside a home in the city of Fallujah in the opening hours of a
massive battle for what was an insurgent-held city on Nov. 9, 2004. The two other Marines,
former Sgt. Jose L. Nazario Jr. and Sgt. Ryan Weemer, have been tried and
acquitted of homicide charges. On Monday, Nelson's
attorneys squared off against prosecutors over a number of pretrial issues,
including a request from Nelson's team to allow them to keep working with the
military investigator assigned to their case last fall. Nelson's attorneys
want the military judge to override military orders that would send the
investigator, Sgt. Chad Sitz, back to his regular day job as an agent with
the Criminal Investigation Division at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. External link: http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/06/29/military/z3264a39983ab7a6d882575e4006d89b7.txt |