SEAL Acquitted in Prisoner's Death
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A Navy SEAL was acquitted of charges that he beat a handcuffed and hooded terrorism suspect who later died, and a second U.S. commando received probation for assaulting another prisoner, attorneys for the men said Monday.
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CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq, Oct. 19 -- A former U.S. commander at the Iraqi jail that held Saddam Hussein was acquitted Friday of aiding the enemy but received two years' imprisonment for convictions on other charges after pleading for leniency from the judge.
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A criminal court on Saturday acquitted two former Guantanamo Bay prisoners of joining al-Qaida or the Taliban.
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The only officer charged in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing, his attorney said Thursday.
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British military chiefs unlawfully killed a serviceman 51 years ago during secret experiments into the effect of deadly nerve agents, an inquest ruled on Monday.
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An Upper East Side landlord who pleaded self-defense in the stabbing death of his wife during an argument in their kitchen was acquitted today by a jury in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
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A Tanzanian accused of conspiracy  in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam was  acquitted on Wednesday.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A U.S. Army sergeant --  cleared of the drowning death of one of two Iraqis thrown off a  bridge but convicted of assault -- was sentenced to six months  in a military prison on Saturday.
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Four Navy Seal commandos have been charged with assaulting an Iraqi detainee who later died during questioning at Abu Ghraib prison last November, and then lying about it, Navy officials said Friday.
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The father of a British chess prodigy who fell to her death days before his trial was to begin was acquitted Thursday of raping her.
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A woman was acquitted of involuntary manslaughter, but convicted of two lesser counts, in the death of her 2-year-old granddaughter, who was mauled by two Rottweilers while visiting her home.
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A British couple who spent 15 months in jail for manslaughter in the death of their 3-year-old foster son have been acquitted in a retrial.  A jury deliberated for seven hours before finding Ian and Angela Gay not guilty Friday.
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LONDON, Dec. 20 -- A judge in Belfast on Thursday acquitted the only person ever charged with murder in the 1998 bombing in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh, which killed 29 people in the bloodiest attack of the province's three decades of sectarian violence.
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A BBC radio presenter is acquitted of charges of sexual assault and supplying a drug with intention to engage in sexual activity.
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A Marine reservist was found guilty Thursday of dereliction of duty and the abuse of prisoners last year at a makeshift detention camp in Iraq, but cleared of assaulting a 52-year-old Iraqi man who later died there.
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Washington -- Four members of an elite US Navy Seals unit have been charged with abusing prisoners in Iraq, including one who died at Abu Ghraib prison after being beaten, the Naval Special Warfare Command said yesterday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A jury yesterday acquitted a leader of a paramilitary group blamed for killing some 3,000 people, after a 14-hour murder trial that angered human rights groups and provoked criticism of the new US-backed government.