U.S. Court Reinstates Blackwater Iraq Shooting Case (Nisoor Square)

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

U.S. court reinstates Blackwater Iraq shooting case
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON | Fri Apr 22, 2011 12:21pm EDT

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge erred in dismissing all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007, an appeals court ruled on Friday.

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The shooting occurred as the private security firm's guards escorted a heavily armed four-truck convoy of U.S. diplomats through the Iraqi capital on September 16, 2007. The guards, U.S. military veterans, were responding to a car bombing when gunfire erupted at a crowded intersection.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina ruled in December 2009 that prosecutors violated the defendants' constitutional rights and the case was tainted by use of statement the guards made to State Department investigators under a threat of job loss.

The appeals court reversed that ruling that the indictment of the guards had been improperly obtained through the use of their compelled statements. It ruled Urbina wrongly interpreted the law.

Read more: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE73L2XS20110422?irpc=932

[Kurmudgeon]

1. This will be interesting, think the national media will pay it any attention? n/m

[Solly Mack]

2. k/r

[DCKit]

3. WooHoo! So glad they kept fighting!

I'm sure I wasn't the only one disgusted when the suit was dismissed.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.