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A Navy judge has removed the lead prosecutor in the case against a Navy SEAL charged with murdering a wounded person and shooting at(CNN) - Navy SEAL team leader Eddie Gallagher will be demoted in rank and his pay will be reduced for posing for a photo with a dead ISIS prisoner, a jury decided Wednesday. A few hours after jurors returned to court Wednesday to deliberate over his sentence, they decided to reduce Gallagher's rank from E7 to E6 and sentenced him to four months' confinement. As a result of Gallagher's reduced rank and forfeiture, his pension will be reduced, though it's unclear at this time by how much. "Congratulations to Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher, his wonderful wife Andrea, and his entire family. Trump had helped get Gallagher moved to "less restrictive confinement" in March and was reportedly mulling a pardon for the SEAL.

SAN DIEGO - SAN DIEGO (AP) - A military jury acquitted a decorated Navy SEAL of premeditated murder Tuesday in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive under his care in Iraq in 2017. Defense lawyers said Gallagher was framed by disgruntled platoon members who fabricated the allegations to oust their chief. They included photos of Gallagher holding the dead militant up by the hair and clutching a knife in his other hand. The case gave a rare public view of a deep division in the insular and highly revered SEAL community. An Iraqi general who handed the wounded prisoner to the SEALs testified that Gallagher did not stab the boy.

Prosecutors in the military trial of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, accused of committing multiple violations of military law in Iraq, rested their case Tuesday. Gallagher has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder and other charges. Nearly a dozen Alpha platoon members of SEAL Team 7 testified during the court-martial at Naval Base San Diego. Many were granted immunity, including a Navy SEAL who stunned the court when he testified that he killed the militant after Gallagher stabbed him by plugging his breathing tube. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

(CNN) - An active duty Navy SEAL deployed in Mosul, Iraq, with Eddie Gallagher testified Wednesday that when Gallagher fired his sniper rifle at a man, he did so because they believed him to be an ISIS combatant, not a citizen as other witnesses have testified. Graffam said he saw two men he thought were ISIS, and told Gallagher, who agreed. Gallagher fired and appeared to hit one of the men in the upper torso, Graffam said on the first day the defense presented its case. In testimony last week, Dalton Tolbert said he fired a warning shot at an old man during a sniper mission with Gallagher. As the old man ran away another sniper fired and the man fell.

Edward Gallagher is accused of stabbing a wounded teenage ISIS fighter in the neck in Mosul in May 2017. A Navy judge has removed the lead prosecutor in the case against a Navy SEAL charged with murdering a wounded person and shooting at(CNN) - Prosecutors in the military trial of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, accused of committing multiple violations of military law in Iraq, rested their case Tuesday. But by week's end, one of the prosecution's own witnesses dropped a bombshell, testifying that he was the one responsible for the ISIS fighter's death. After the prosecution rested, the court-martial members, who act as a jury, were dismissed from the courtroom. The judge denied the motion, and the trial will continue Wednesday at 12 p.m.