{"id":23582,"date":"2019-06-26T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T21:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/26\/gallagher-defense-team-goes-on-the-offensive-during-war-crimes-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:58:20","slug":"gallagher-defense-team-goes-on-the-offensive-during-war-crimes-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/06\/26\/gallagher-defense-team-goes-on-the-offensive-during-war-crimes-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallagher defense team goes on the offensive during war crimes trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAN DIEGO \u2014 Defense lawyers went on the offensive Wednesday in the murder trial of a decorated Navy SEAL charged with killing a wounded Islamic State prisoner in Iraq and shooting at civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prosecution rested its case a day earlier in the San Diego court-martial of Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward \u201cEddie\u201d Gallagher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also on Tuesday, the judge in the case rejected a defense request to issue a summary judgment finding Gallagher not guilty of murder and attempted murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Joshua Vanderpool testified for the defense that he never heard Gallagher talk about hurting civilians or stabbing anyone. He said Gallagher had an intense style and would get on his SEAL teammates for not cleaning their guns and not understanding their weapons equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some fellow SEALs didn&#8217;t share Gallagher&#8217;s aggressive attitude, and Vanderpool said he sensed the team was starting to &#8220;fracture.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The defense also planned to show jurors videotaped testimony from an Iraqi general who handed over the fighter to Gallagher for medical treatment after the adolescent was wounded in an airstrike. The general gave videotaped testimony in June when he visited San Diego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecution witnesses, including a fellow Navy SEAL, testified that Gallagher stabbed the prisoner twice in the neck in May 2017 and that the attack could have been fatal.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/06\/24\/thanks-to-seals-immunity-deals-confessed-killer-unlikely-to-be-charged\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screen2BB.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Thanks to SEAL\u2019s immunity deals, confessed killer unlikely to be charged<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott said that he killed the detainee, not the SEAL on trial for the alleged murder.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense lawyers say testimony from the Iraqi general and other witnesses will show Gallagher isn\u2019t guilty. They already have contended that the witnesses against him offered tainted or even false testimony. They have questioned the methodology of the chief investigator and noted the lack of a body or other physical evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/04\/22\/what-motivated-fellow-seals-to-dime-out-eddie-gallagher\/\" target=_blank>called seven SEALs <\/a>from the platoon to testify in the court-martial at Naval Base San Diego that started a week ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One witness,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/06\/24\/thanks-to-seals-immunity-deals-confessed-killer-unlikely-to-be-charged\/\" target=_blank> Corey Scott<\/a>, a medic, shocked the courtroom last week after he admitted to the killing, saying he plugged the militant\u2019s breathing tube after Gallagher stabbed the boy as an act of mercy because he feared he would be tortured and possibly killed by Iraqi forces if he survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense attorney Timothy Parlatore told the judge Wednesday that he received an email from the convening authority \u2014 the Navy&#8217;s chain of command \u2014 stating that fellow SEALs who had taken the stand could be prosecuted for earlier acts despite being granted immunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judge, Navy Capt. 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Several of the same SEALs who had testified against Gallagher also posed with the dead body in a platoon photo, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No blood was found on the knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gallagher, 40, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the case of the prisoner and attempted murder for his alleged shooting of a young girl and elderly man in separate incidents outside Mosul. The defense said the shooting incidents were based on the accounts of one SEAL and one former SEAL who never saw Gallagher pull the trigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"677\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GallagherSNIPER.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GallagherSNIPER.jpg.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GallagherSNIPER.jpg.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GallagherSNIPER.jpg.jpg?resize=768,433 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GallagherSNIPER.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,578 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward \u201cEddie\u201d Gallagher sniping at Islamic State fighters in Iraq. (Photo provided)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fellow defense lawyer Marc Mukasey suggested earlier Tuesday that the lead investigator, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Joseph Warpinski, befriended witnesses and encouraged them to speak with each other and go after Gallagher in violation of standard investigation practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warpinski acknowledged making some mistakes in the hundreds of text messages he exchanged with witnesses, but denied making friends with them or encouraging them to discuss the case to get their stories straight or to target the chief. 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