Riverside jury gets crash course in Marine culture
Jurors in former sergeant's civilian trial for manslaughter during combat in Iraq must decide whether his acts were criminal.
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 26, 2008
In what the prosecution calls Marine Corps 101, civilian jurors in a landmark trial in Riverside are being tutored in a "warrior culture" that trains young men not only how to kill the enemy but, just as importantly, when to show restraint.
Barring unforeseen events, jurors in the case of the United States of America vs. Jose Luis Nazario Jr. will be asked this week to do something no civilian jury has done in modern times: determine whether a member of the U.S. military committed criminal acts in combat. Only one of the jurors has military experience, a stint in the Navy a decade ago.
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