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Judge Holds Up Retrial of Ehren Watada

HeadlineNov 09, 2007

There has been a development in the case of Ehren Watada, the first Army officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq. A federal judge has ruled the Army cannot hold a second court-martial for the Iraq war resister until the court resolves Watada’s claim that it would violate his right against double jeopardy. Watada’s first court-martial ended in a mistrial.

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