Mistrial declared in training-injury lawsuit

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Jesse Klingler was a Marine rifleman in 2004 when he was wounded in a training exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar’s Camp Elliott.


Mistrial declared in training-injury lawsuit
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Oct 30, 2007 20:15:51 EDT

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — The wildfires that raged through San Diego County last week disrupted the region’s legal affairs, including a civil lawsuit filed by a former Marine who is suing a Hollywood producer and training company.

Just two days into what was expected to be a two-week trial, Superior Court Judge John S. Meyer declared a mistrial in the case because the wildfires forced the courts to shut down for the entire week.

The judge set Nov. 26 as the start date for a new trial, said Robert Gaglione, a San Diego attorney representing former Lance Cpl. Jesse Klingler.

Klingler, 21, was wounded in a Sept. 18, 2004 training exercise at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego. During the exercise he was taken hostage, tied and bound before a hired actor playing the role of an insurgent, who then pointed an AK-47 assault rifle and fired two blank rounds at close range.

The former rifleman from Tennessee was wounded by the two bursts the AK-47, and he claims he suffers from constant pain and post-traumatic stress because of the incident. He’s suing Strategic Operations Inc., a tactical training company that hired actors to serve as role-players for the predeployment exercise at Miramar’s Camp Elliott. He’s also suing producer Stu Segall, the company’s owner; and the actor, Ali “Rocky” Mohsen, for an undisclosed amount of money.

Klingler, who was assigned to Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, was discharged honorably from the Corps in 2005.


Article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/10/marine_klingler_071030/



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