Watada Mistrial May Lead to Dismissal

Thursday, February 08 2007 @ 10:12 AM EST

Contributed by: annikee

The charges against Lt. Ehren Watada for his refusal to deploy with his unit may be dropped after a mistrial was declared yesterday. In question now is "Double Jeopardy", which states that a defendant may not be tried twice for the same charges.

Watada refused to deploy under his belief that the Iraq "War" is illegal and immoral.

Read more at:
http://www.truthout.org/docs2006/0208/07J.shtml

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