![]() So what the defense has been saying - that this was an investigation that had run amuck. A Marine raider who was with the unit said that he saw the neck and that there was no stab wounds on it after the prisoner had died. ![]() WALSH: So there's been, obviously, a lot of confusion among SEALs. MARTIN: Up until that point, what had been Gallagher's defense? And another SEAL also said he stabbed him, for that matter. Now, Scott still said he saw Gallagher stab the prisoner. And he said that he closed off the breathing tube after Gallagher left and suffocated the prisoner. Last week, medic Corey Scott - and this was a prosecution witness who was - he was working on the body of this detainee. WALSH: Yeah, there have been so many twists and turns in this case. MARTIN: There was a dramatic moment, I understand, when another Navy SEAL took the witness stand. And this is the only charge that cannot be accompanied by a dishonorable discharge. WALSH: Right, this is the least serious charge - posing with the body of a dead detainee on the battlefield. MARTIN: The jury did find Gallagher guilty on this charge of posing with the corpse of the ISIS fighter. This was, by the way, Gallagher's eighth deployment. So he faced seven counts, including a murder count, for stabbing a wounded detainee, and then attempted murder counts for shooting at two civilians with his sniper rifle, as well as firing into a crowd of civilians while he was in Mosul in 2017, fighting ISIS. Steve, can you just start off by explaining what exactly the charges were against Gallagher? Steve Walsh from member station KPBS has been covering the trial and joins us now. Edward Gallagher was found not guilty on all the most serious charges surrounding the death of a captive ISIS fighter, as well as the attempted murder of Iraqi civilians. The jury in the war crimes trial of a Navy SEAL reached a verdict yesterday.
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