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Virginia PilotA judge granted bond to one of two former Blackwater contractors charged in the murder of two Afghan civilians and denied bond to a co-defendant after citing anger and alcohol issues.
The decision came two days after a jury in federal court failed to reach a verdict against Christopher Drotleff and Justin Cannon. After the government insisted on retrying the case, the defendants' lawyers asked for a bond hearing.
U.S. District Judge Robert G. Doumar allowed Cannon to go free on a $50,000 secured bond to be posted by his father. The judge ordered Cannon to live with his father in Louisiana and wear an electronic monitoring device.
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But Doumar refused to let Drotleff out. Drotleff, of Virginia Beach, has a history of arrests on charges of reckless driving, assault, resisting arrest, drunken driving and disturbing the peace that the judge said he could not ignore. He also cited an absent without leave charge that Drotleff had while in the Army.
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