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By The Canadian Press, cbc.ca, Updated: July 19, 2010 10:00 AMSemrau deliberations enter 3rd day
A third day of deliberations begins Monday in Gatineau, Que., in the court martial of a Canadian Forces captain charged in a battlefield death in Afghanistan.
A four-member military panel is trying to reach a verdict in the landmark court martial of 36-year-old Capt. Robert Semrau.
Semrau is accused of firing two rounds from his rifle into a dying Taliban fighter in Helmand province in October 2008.
A question from the jury about evidence kept lawyers arguing for hours, preventing a verdict on the weekend.
Semrau never testified, but an Afghan army captain, who was on the patrol with Semrau, testified the Taliban fighter was "98 per cent dead" when he was found.
Semrau is charged with four offences, including second-degree murder, which carries a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 years.
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