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Reckless
Homicide Charge
05/08/08 MRC/AP
A western
Kentucky jury rejected a murder charge Tuesday and instead
convicted a Kentucky National Guardsman of reckless
homicide in the death of a fellow guardsman last year.
The Carlisle
County jury found Cody Morris, 19, not guilty of murder
but guilty of the lesser charge and also convicted him of
tampering with evidence. He was also acquitted of wanton
endangerment.
Morris showed
no emotion as Circuit Judge Tim Langford read the jury's
verdict at the end of the two-day trial.
The case stems
from the death last October of Casey Hall, 18, who was
shot and killed at a house where Morris and other teens
were playing video games.
The jury
recommended the maximum sentence of five years on each
count and asked that the sentences be served
consecutively. Sentencing will be June 19th.
Morris had
returned from Iraq about two weeks before the shooting and
had post-traumatic stress disorder.
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