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A squad leader who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the murders of three unarmed Afghans a decade ago filed a federal lawsuit to have his convictions vacated. ....
The father of a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly a half dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the Army: Troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian, planned more killings and threatened him to keep quiet about it. ....
A little-known fact about an alleged triple combat murder has a former military contractor concerned if an imprisoned squad leader was truly given his constitutional right to a fair trial. ....
Or death. it ended up not being prosecuted. his wife had started restraining orders against him. so why is he the one that prosecutors willing to make a deal with? because he s the only one who s offering such graphic, disturbing evidence against the others. although his story has changed quite a bit, contessa, from the start. for example, when it comes to my client, when they first interviewed him, he didn t even know my client s first name. and when asked if he was involved in any of this, he said, i don t know. we re now to the point where he gets a pre-trial agreement from the government to save his own skin and now it s all of a sudden, specialist michael wagnon is really deeply involved, according to him. and it s just kind of this fairy tale that s been progressing. what is your defense for michael? michael has done absolutely nothing wrong. not one thing wrong, whatsoever. ....
He s an excellent soldier. he s had two previous deployments to iraq, two very hard deployments irq. sn eelntoler a the did he witness right, he s got charges here, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault, and conspiracy to commit assault. did he witness any of the murders? no. as a matter of fact, we re not sure that there were any murders at all, despite what morlock says. in michael wagnon s case, what happened was, he was in a mission, they were conducting a mission, and he heard fire and he responded to it. he heard both ak-47 and m-16 fire, so enemy and friendly fire, and he turned and ran to respond to it. and now somehow he s been dragged into some kind of conspiracy and involved with killing an afghan man when all he did was respond combat action, like we train them to do and like we expect him to do. ....