(MENAFN)A former security contractor for the US firm Blackwater, who was originally found guilty of first-degree murder are facing a new trial.
The Washington Post reported that prosecutors said Nicholas Slatten, whose conviction for a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting was overturned last August, will face retrial as early as May.
Slatten was part of a Blackwater Worldwide security detail that killed 14 people and sparked international outrage as they opened fire on civilians at a crowded traffic circle in the Iraqi capital in September 2007.
He was found guilty of murder in 2014, but the appeals court said this year that Slatten's conviction is thrown out, arguing that he should have faced a separate trial from his co-defendants.
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