Trial ending for ex-troop accused in slaying

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Trial ending for ex-troop accused in slaying
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Nov 14, 2008 15:08:42 EST

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The last scheduled defense witness took the stand Friday in the trial of a former Fort Carson soldier accused of killing a fellow Iraq war veteran.

Louis Bressler is charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 1, 2007, death of 24-year-old Spc. Kevin Shields. Prosecutors say Bressler shot Shields because he knew too much about robberies that Bressler and others planned to commit, and because he’d lost a fight to Shields.

Forensic analysis expert John Koziol testified Friday as part of a defense strategy to show that another soldier shot Shields, but prosecutors cross-examined Koziol about blood spatter evidence and bullet angles in an attempt to discredit that theory.

It was not immediately clear whether Bressler would testify in his own defense.


Article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/ap_soldierslaying_111408/%2e