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Navy SEAL gets 10 years for his role in Green Beret's death by Ben Finley, The Associated Press Posted Jan 25, 2021 11:24 am EDT Last Updated Jan 25, 2021 at 11:28 am EDT NORFOLK, Va. — A U.S. Navy SEAL has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the hazing death of a U.S. Army Green Beret while the men served together in Africa. The SEAL’s attorney said he plans to appeal the punishment. Tony DeDolph received the sentence Saturday from a jury of fellow servicemembers at a Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, the Navy said in a statement Monday. He had pleaded guilty to involuntar...

Navy Chief Special Warfare Operator Tony E. DeDolph, a U.S. Navy SEAL with SEAL Team 6, has agreed to plead guilty to some of the charges against him in the June 4, 2017 strangulation death of Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar, a Green Beret, in Mali. DeDolph’s attorney Phillip Stackhouse told Military Times his client agreed to plead guilty to some charges while other contested charges would be dropped, adding that his client “never intended to injure” Melgar. DeDolph is the third defendant in the case to plead guilty. DeDolph, along with fellow SEAL Navy Chief SWO Adam C. Matthews, U.S. Ma...

Julie. final question. >> i would like for my husband to have the first christmas in the last eight without the army, this cloud hanging over his head, when he did nothing wrong. i would like for us to be able to enjoy the holidays with our newborn. and by the way, it's not only how it looks to our men and women over there. our enemy is also seeing this. >> we're going to leave it there. julie goldstein, i appreciate you coming on. >> thank you. >> phillip stackhouse, thank you very much. we'll stay on it and stay in contact with both of you. thank you for being with me. i'm brooke baldwin. "t...

Attorney, phillip stackhouse, are with me now. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> julie, let me start with matt, your husband. graduated from west point. goes on to become this elite green beret, awarded the nation's third-highest award for valor. what did serving this country mean for your husband? >> i think it meant everything to him. when people thank him for his service now, matt says it was a great honor. and i would have done it for free. >> hmmm. let's go back through all of this and phillip, i turn to you for this. so let's go back to 2010. major goldstein was command...

>> i understand. but did goldstein understand at the time -- obviously, he knows the rules of engagement. you know, why did he pull the trigger, if he knew what he was doing was illegal? >> so you imply that he knew what he was doing was illegal or what he did was illegal. >> i'm asking you, was he aware. >> right. he was aware of the rules of engagement. he exercised his discretion as a ground commander in afghanistan. controlling essentially the bottom third of marja during combat operations, highly kinetic combat operations. >> i understand. >> he affected an ambush that killed someone. >> ...