{"id":58982,"date":"2015-03-29T09:24:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T13:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58982"},"modified":"2015-03-29T09:24:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T13:24:51","slug":"william-earl-cunningham-guilty-of-marine-vets-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58982","title":{"rendered":"William Earl Cunningham guilty of Marine vet’s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Army Times<\/a> brings us up-to-date on the murder trial of William Earl Cunningham, the Vietnam Era jump-qualified carpenter who murdered Marine veteran Nathan Horn in Montana when they disagreed about whether the Army or the Marines were the better service. Police say that the facts of the case didn’t support Cunningham’s version of events – that he killed Horn in self-defense;<\/p>\n

Deputy Yellowstone County Attorney Christopher Morris told jurors during closing arguments Friday the facts do not support Cunningham’s story that the two men were standing up when Horn’s throat was cut.<\/p>\n

“There would have been arterial spurting, it would have covered the shirt of Mr. Cunningham,” Morris said. “There is zero evidence that that occurred.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the jury found him guilty of deliberate homicide. If you remember, Cunningham claimed that he reacted the way that he did because of his Army training<\/a>;<\/p>\n

During the conversation late Saturday, the men argued again and Cunningham said Horn \u201cjumped up and took a swing\u201d at him.<\/p>\n

Cunningham pushed Horn back, court records state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I cut him,\u201d Cunningham allegedly said. \u201cI did what the Army taught me to do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, I’m pretty sure that they didn’t teach him to react like that during his training to be a carpenter more than forty years ago;<\/p>\n

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Police say that he has been a convicted violent felon for decades – the Army had nothing to do with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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