[USNBandit]

The court ruling was that the prosecution had used the accused statements, which were granted under an immunity agreement, to build most of their case.

This is a 5th amendment and then fruit of the poisonous tree issue. I think it will be really tough to overturn if the case is judged on the legal merits and not mere politics.

The charges are crap anyway. In addition to the regular charges they were charged with using a machine gun in the crime. Then why doesn't somebody charge the State Dept who got them the clearances to bring those weapons into Iraq?

[Girlene]

Thanks for the all the info, USNBandit. Extra charges for using a gun in the “crime”? They’re using laws set up for civilian crimes on US soil against these guards. Pretty ridiculous.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Note that you’d be railing in a second if the same kind of technicality was used to let off a killer in the USA.