enhanced_deficit
07-19-2013, 08:39 PM
That seems to have been fixed now:
Marine's conviction overturned in killing of Iraqi father of 11
By Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters
LOS ANGELES - The highest military appeals court on Wednesday overturned the murder conviction of a Marine sergeant found guilty in 2007 of leading a squad in Iraq that was accused of killing a civilian they had captured, bound and gagged.
Three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces found Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins gave a statement to a U.S. Navy investigator while in custody that should have been ruled inadmissible and tainted his court-martial.
The case stems from the 2006 death in Hamdania, Iraq, of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, 52, a father of 11 and grandfather of four.
In 2007, a court-martial at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base north of San Diego sentenced Hutchins to 15 years in military prison after finding him guilty of unpremeditated murder, larceny and other crimes.
Hutchins was the leader of a squad that went on a mission aimed at stopping militants' use of improvised explosive devices. Witnesses had testified that Hutchins and another Marine shot Awad and placed an AK-47 and a shovel next to the corpse to suggest he had been planting a bomb.
Earlier, Awad had been bound and gagged at another location, according to a finding by a lower court of appeal for the military.In its ruling on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces said that in May 2006, a Navy investigator began to question Hutchins but he invoked his right to an attorney and was put under guard in a trailer.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/27/19166824-marines-conviction-overturned-in-killing-of-iraqi-father-of-11?lite
Massachusetts Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins released from military prison after war crimes conviction overturned (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=sgt.%20lawrence%20hutchins&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.masslive.com%2Fnews%2Findex.s sf%2F2013%2F07%2Fmassachusetts_marine_sgt_lawre.ht ml&ei=FfjpUfD9K5LY9AT_2YDoCQ&usg=AFQjCNF4R1NHVneRvzz465FuhL-xjdaz-Q&bvm=bv.49478099,d.eWU)
MassLive.com - 48 minutes ago
Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III, of Plymouth, Mass., walked out of the brig at the Marine Corps Miramar Air Station in San Diego after having served ...
Marine's conviction overturned in killing of Iraqi father of 11
By Alex Dobuzinskis, Reuters
LOS ANGELES - The highest military appeals court on Wednesday overturned the murder conviction of a Marine sergeant found guilty in 2007 of leading a squad in Iraq that was accused of killing a civilian they had captured, bound and gagged.
Three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces found Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins gave a statement to a U.S. Navy investigator while in custody that should have been ruled inadmissible and tainted his court-martial.
The case stems from the 2006 death in Hamdania, Iraq, of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, 52, a father of 11 and grandfather of four.
In 2007, a court-martial at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base north of San Diego sentenced Hutchins to 15 years in military prison after finding him guilty of unpremeditated murder, larceny and other crimes.
Hutchins was the leader of a squad that went on a mission aimed at stopping militants' use of improvised explosive devices. Witnesses had testified that Hutchins and another Marine shot Awad and placed an AK-47 and a shovel next to the corpse to suggest he had been planting a bomb.
Earlier, Awad had been bound and gagged at another location, according to a finding by a lower court of appeal for the military.In its ruling on Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces said that in May 2006, a Navy investigator began to question Hutchins but he invoked his right to an attorney and was put under guard in a trailer.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/27/19166824-marines-conviction-overturned-in-killing-of-iraqi-father-of-11?lite
Massachusetts Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins released from military prison after war crimes conviction overturned (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=sgt.%20lawrence%20hutchins&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.masslive.com%2Fnews%2Findex.s sf%2F2013%2F07%2Fmassachusetts_marine_sgt_lawre.ht ml&ei=FfjpUfD9K5LY9AT_2YDoCQ&usg=AFQjCNF4R1NHVneRvzz465FuhL-xjdaz-Q&bvm=bv.49478099,d.eWU)
MassLive.com - 48 minutes ago
Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III, of Plymouth, Mass., walked out of the brig at the Marine Corps Miramar Air Station in San Diego after having served ...