Ex-GI to Plead Insanity in Murder Case

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Ex-GI to Plead Insanity in Murder Case
December 12, 2008
Associated Press

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - A former Army soldier charged with raping and killing an Iraqi teenager, then slaying her family, will rely on an insanity defense at trial, a defense attorney said Thursday.

Federal Public Defender Scott Wendelsdorf said during a conference call with prosecutors and a judge that former 101st Airborne soldier Steven Dale Green will rely on medical experts' evaluation of his medical condition in fighting the charges against him.

"My whole defense is going to be not guilty by reason of insanity," Wendelsdorf said.

Green faces a possible death sentence if convicted on 16 charges that include premeditated murder and aggravated sexual assault in 2006. He pleaded not guilty in November 2006. Green is scheduled to face trial on April 27, 2009.

Prosecutors say Green raped, killed and set afire the body of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi and shot and killed her father, mother and sister in a house in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from Baghdad, in March 2006.


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