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Edmond soldier Michael Behenna may get fewer years

 
  
Published: March 21, 2009

A military judge in Kentucky refused Friday to order a mistrial in the case of an Edmond soldier found guilty of murdering an Iraqi detainee.

photo - 1st Lt. Michael C. Behenna, left, and his defense attorney Capt. Tom Clark, right, walk in Camp Speicher, a large U.S. base near Tikrit, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. Behenna is charged with fatally shooting an Iraqi detainee earlier this year and lying about it. His pretrial hearing started Sunday at Camp Speicher. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)
1st Lt. Michael C. Behenna, left, and his defense attorney Capt. Tom Clark, right, walk in Camp Speicher, a large U.S. base near Tikrit, north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. Behenna is charged with fatally shooting an Iraqi detainee earlier this year and lying about it. His pretrial hearing started Sunday at Camp Speicher. (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)

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First Lt. Michael Behenna had testified at trial that he shot Ali Mansour Mohammed twice last May in self-defense during an interrogation.

A military jury last month chose a 25-year sentence for Behenna after convicting him of murder.

Contributing: NOLAN CLAY, Staff Writer, and The Associated Press

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