Gallagher Found Not Guilty on All Counts Except One
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher has been found not guilty on multiple counts, including premeditated murder, related to the death of a captive Islamic State soldier in Iraq in 2017.
Gallagher was found guilty of taking unofficial pictures with the corpse of the dead ISIS soldier. Gallagher's attorneys suggest that his arraignment and legal process has been part of a larger scheme by his subordinates to mutiny. Military juries, unlike civilian juries, need only a two-thirds majority to reach any decision; meaning that only five out of the seven jurors needed to concur to make a decision. Voices on both the left and right sides of the media referenced the fact that key prosecution witness Corey Scott — a Navy SEAL medic — changed his story during the course of the trial.
The maximum penalty for one offense of posing for unofficial pictures with a dead body is four months imprisonment. During the trial, it was revealed that members of Gallagher's unit regularly and deliberately posed for pictures with dead bodies for trophy. It is unknown as to what the repercussion of the verdict will be on military policy.
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