Lawyers for a former Blackwater guard charged in a fatal shooting in Iraq want the federal government to pay their legal fees now that a judge has dismissed the case against him.
Nicholas Slatten was one of several ex-Blackwater guards charged with killing and injuring Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. A federal trial judge dismissed the original indictment, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit revived the prosecution in 2011. The appeals court ruled earlier this month that the 2011 ruling didn’t apply to Slatten.
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