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Murder trial begins for 2 former Marines
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Jun 27, 2009 8:16:46 EDT
Posted : Saturday Jun 27, 2009 8:16:46 EDT
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Trial has begun for two former Marines charged with getting a brain-damaged Iraq War vet to kill a Long Beach man in a dispute over a laptop computer.
Anthony Vigeant and Trevor Landers were in court Wednesday in Long Beach. The ex-Camp Pendleton Marines are charged with the 2007 murder of David Pettigrew.
Prosecutors contend he was shot when the men went to retrieve a laptop because Pettigrew had failed to pay them with an ounce of cocaine.
Authorities claim the men got former Cpl. Ramon Hernandez — who received severe brain injuries in a 2004 Iraq bombing — to kill Pettigrew.
Hernandez pleaded guilty to murder in April.
Landers had a previous trial that ended with a jury deadlock.
Vigeant and Landers face life in prison if convicted.
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