THE NATION - News from April 7, 2009
Jury selection began for the first former Army soldier to be charged as a civilian under a 2000 law that allows him to be prosecuted for alleged crimes committed overseas.
Steven Dale Green, a former member of the 101st Airborne Division, was accused along with four fellow soldiers of raping a 14-year-old girl and killing her and her family in Iraq, but he won’t face an Iraqi or military jury.
Instead, Green will face jurors in Paducah, more than 6,700 miles away, under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act.
Green faces 17 charges including murder and sexual assault.
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