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...as a member of the security forces unit. Claiming jurisdiction under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 2000 (MEJA), 18 U.S.C. Sections 3261-3267, the U.S. charged Defendant with murder. After a mistrial, a second jury convicted her of the lesser-included offense of voluntary manslaughter.
Defendant filed a timely notice of appeal, raising several challenges to her conviction and sentence. She asserted, inter alia, that the indictment failed to allege an essential element and challenged several aspects of her conviction, including the sufficiency of the evidence and the court's refusal to give an involuntary manslaughter instruction. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reverses and remands for a new trial on the latter point....
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