A former soldier will get a new trial on charges that he attacked his then-girlfriend after nearly half of the record of his original trial disappeared.
The D.C. Court of Appeals has set aside Benjamin Egbuka’s conviction of assault and threats because about 40 percent of his trial transcript disappeared. That forced a team of lawyers and a new judge to try to reconstruct Egbuka’s trial from notes and memories, which the appellate panel said wasn’t fair to Egbuka.
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