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Manslaughter in Australia, An Acquittal in Alabama
from the March, 2012 issue of Undercurrent
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We've written many articles about Gabe Watson,
a diver from Alabama charged with the murder of his
wife, Tina, while diving in Australia. A month-long
inquest concluded that while diving from one of Mike
Ball's boats on the Great Barrier Reef in 2003, Watson
turned off Tina's air and left her to drown. After
pleading guilty to manslaughter due to negligence,
Watson, now 34 and remarried, served 18 months in
an Australian prison before being brought back to
Alabama for a new trial, possibly facing a life sentence
without parole. The ending was quite different there.
The judge acquitted Watson of murder, ending the trial
before the defense had even presented its case, saying
prosecutors lacked evidence to prove Watson intentionally
killed his wife....
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