Federal prosecutors’ renewed case against four former private security guards charged with fatally shooting more than a dozen Iraqi civilians in 2007 has survived an initial challenge.
A federal judge in Washington in 2009 dismissed the first case after finding that prosecutors improperly relied on protected statements made by the guards. The government filed a new indictment in late 2013. The guards’ lawyers argued prosecutors again unlawfully built the revived case on the protected statements.
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