Army hearing on deaths of 4 Iraqis ends

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Army hearing on deaths of 4 Iraqis ends
By Matt Millham, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Friday, August 29, 2008

Attorneys delivered their closing statements Thursday in an Article 32 investigation that will be used to determine whether two Army junior noncommissioned officers face courts-martial on charges of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder.

Speaking for the prosecution, Capt. Derrick Grace told the hearing’s investigating officer, Maj. Rocky Lobash, that nobody in the room would disagree that an "overt act" occurred when three soldiers killed detainees in Iraq in April 2007.

The only thing in dispute, Grace said, was the level of involvement of Staff Sgt. Jess Cunningham and Sgt. Charles Quigley.

Grace acknowledged that neither pulled the trigger to kill the detainees. But, he said, you "don’t have to pull the trigger to be a co-conspirator."

In making the prosecution’s case against Cunningham, Grace asked Lobash to rely on the testimony of Spc. Humberto Navarro, who was with Cunningham and Quigley when the shootings took place.


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