MARTINEZ ACQUITTED

I haven't WTF'd over a jury verdict since the first OJ trial, but this one out of Fort Bragg is a serious headscratcher: the acquittal of Staff Sgt. Alberto Martinez in the fragging deaths of two Hudson Valley soldiers despite what looks to this untrained eye like something that should have been open and shut:

The prosecution said Martinez killed the soldiers after his anger at Esposito slowly rose from making threats to placing the mine. He had promised to "burn" and "frag" the captain -- and, after the killings, was seen laughing, happier than he had been in some time, after the killings, prosecutors said. He even asked a former supervisor if he wanted his old job back, they said. Staff Sgt. Amy Harlan, who also worked in supplies, had testified that she provided Martinez with Claymore mines in May, unaware of what would transpire...