Deliberations begin in case of sailor accused of killing his daughter

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Deliberations begin in case of sailor accused of killing his daughter
By Allison Batdorff, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, January 19, 2008

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — Deliberations began Thursday in the case of Seaman Recruit Jonathan Delgado, a Misawa sailor accused of killing his infant daughter by shaking her to death.

“This isn’t a case of whodunit — it’s a case of what happened,” prosecutor Cmdr. Dave Karpel told jurors.

Impassioned closing arguments characterized both sides, with the prosecution calling the evidence against Delgado “inescapable” and the defense calling the court-martial “a witch hunt.”

Defense attorney Lt. James Jung accused prosecution witnesses of “playing with the facts” and asserted that a letter written by the baby’s grandmother to Adm. William Fallon found in a Naval Criminal Investigative Service file put pressure on investigators to finger someone.

“This man is innocent, and you know it,” Jung told jurors, cautioning the eight-member panel not to seek the “emotionally satisfying answer” over the rational one.


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