A federal appeals court on Friday (August 4) threw out the murder conviction of an ex-Blackwater security guard and ordered three of his former colleagues to be re-sentenced in the high-profile prosecution stemming from the massacre of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians at a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007.
They are allowing new evidence to be brought in during a re-trial in which he contends that one of his co-defendants fired the 1st shots.
Court Throws Out Murder Conviction for Blackwater Guard in Nissour Square Massacre
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