Gallagher hugged his wife, Andrea Gallagher, who had tears of joy streaming down her cheeks upon hearing the verdict. “They went through each charge - not guilty, not guilty, not guilty.” “They walked in and it was very fast,” Char Ekoniak, a longtime friend of the Gallagher family, said outside the military court room at Naval Base San Diego. The verdict was handed down quickly, after less than nine hours of jury deliberation. Gallagher could face up to four months for the crime, but already has served nine months in confinement, so he became a free man Tuesday. The seven-man jury found Gallagher guilty only of posing with a human casualty, and on Wednesday will meet to determine his final sentencing on that lone charge. A military jury found Navy SEAL Edward “Eddie” Gallagher not guilty, Tuesday, July 2 for the premeditated murder of a teen ISIS fighter, as well as five other war crimes he was accused of committing during a 2017 deployment to Iraq.
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