Jury gets the KBR case after lawyers make their final arguments
Source: The Oregonian
Now, the case against KBR Inc. is up to the 12 Oregonians who've been sitting silently through all the testimony and arguments for the last 17 working days. Finally, the jurors may begin talking to one another about which side made a more persuasive case.
More precisely, they will discuss whether the lawyers for the dozen Oregon National Guard soldiers and veterans have proven that KBR was negligent or committed fraud in its conduct at Iraq's Qarmat Ali water treatment plant in 2003.
In his closing argument Wednesday, the soldiers' lawyer, Mike Doyle, told the jury that the defense contractor had carried out "the big lie" in the way it handled the presence of sodium dichromate, which contains a known carcinogen, at the water treatment plant where the Oregon soldiers provided security.
Doyle said KBR knew of the presence of sodium dichromate at Qarmat Ali even before it arrived there in March 2003. And then, he said, it faced a choice.
Read more: http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonatwar/2012/10/jury_gets_the_kbr_case_after_l.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
= new reply since forum marked as read
