Murder Trial to Start in Iraqi's Death

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Murder Trial to Start in Iraqi's Death
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | February 18, 2008

When Army Spc. Christopher Phillip Shore's court-martial begins Feb. 19, his father will tell jurors that the Georgia soldier is a fine warrior trained to kill with uncanny precision -- but never to murder.

That is the charge against Shore, who spent 15 months at war and became the first soldier from Georgia to be charged with the murder of an Iraqi. If found guilty, he could face a maximum penalty of life without parole.

Convinced of his son's innocence, Brian Shore will take the stand along with his older son Derrick Sparks, several of Phillip Shore's platoon mates and a forensic pathologist at the court-martial in Honolulu, where Shore's battalion in the 25th Infantry Division is based.

Army prosecutors will try to convince a jury of soldiers that Shore killed an Iraqi detainee during a raid near the northern city of Kirkuk last June.

Shore, 26, of Winder, has said he was ordered to shoot the unidentified man by his patrol leader, Sgt. 1st Class Trey Corrales but that he deliberately missed.


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