Jury told officer's death preceded abuse
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The mistreatment of Iraqis in custody was likely fueled by the death of a British army officer who was blown up by a bomb, according to testimony Thursday in the court-martial of seven soldiers charged with abusing detainees.
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A high-level panel investigating  U.S. military detention operations has concluded that top  Pentagon officials and the military command in Iraq contributed  to an environment in which detainees were abused at Abu Ghraib  prison in Iraq, a defense official said on Tuesday.
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Missing medical evidence taken from the body of an Iraqi man beaten by Marine prison guards resurfaced this week, a defense attorney for an officer charged in connection with the man's death said Thursday. For months, the military had insisted the evidence was lost.
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A former police chief and a police officer who threatened to inflict pain on the kidnapper and murderer of an 11-year-old boy were found guilty in a ruling that set a precedent on the legality of police violence, a court said.
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A 10-man jury was seated Friday for the military trial of the soldier prosecutors call the ringleader of the prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison.
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Prosecutors investigating a police shooting that occurred days after Hurricane Katrina created a "mess" by compelling three officers to testify before the grand jury that later indicted them, a judge presiding over the case said Friday.
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ST. FRANCISVILLE, Louisiana  - A jury began deliberating on Friday the fate of a couple accused of negligent homicide in the flooding deaths of 35 elderly people at their Louisiana nursing home during Hurricane Katrina.
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Prosecutors charged a soldier Wednesday in connection with the death of a conscript who was allegedly beaten by two drunken officers and left overnight in a dog kennel.
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One juror, a white woman, was trying to convince the others that the murder victim had been bruised during a struggle, not during consensual sex with the defendant. Bruises like those, the juror supposedly said, can happen "when a big black guy beats up on a small woman."
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Frequent deadly attacks by insurgents sapped morale and raised combat stress in a U.S. Army unit that included soldiers accused of raping and murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, a private testified at a military hearing Tuesday.
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A New York police officer who shot to  death an unarmed African immigrant acted recklessly, the  prosecutor charged at the start of his manslaughter trial on  Monday, but the defense said the killing was self-defense.
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Multiple combat deployments, including one where he saw a close friend die, damaged the mental health of a Marine who pleaded guilty to his role in the kidnapping and killing of an Iraqi civilian, his psychologist testified Friday.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A judge declared a mistrial in a first-degree murder case Wednesday after the recent suicide of a Montreal police officer who was the lead detective in the case.
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A former police officer accused of strangling a woman pregnant with his child knew where her body was but had nothing to do with her death, a defense lawyer told jurors at the man's murder trial Monday.
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An Iraqi who was shot by a U.S. tank company commander now charged with murder appears to have been mortally wounded before the officer fired, a doctor testified Thursday.
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Jury begins deliberations in court martial of prison guard accused of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
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Jurors decide a man shot dead by police while carrying a lighter shaped like a gun was lawfully killed.