Two weeks after a judge dismissed manslaughter charges against former Blackwater guard Nicholas Slatten, federal prosecutors charged him on Friday with first-degree murder.
Slatten was one of a group of ex-Blackwater guards charged with manslaughter in a fatal shooting in Iraq in 2007 that left dozens of civilians dead or wounded. A federal judge in Washington dismissed the case, finding prosecutors improperly used protected statements made by the guards after the incident. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2011 reinstated the prosecution.
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