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Appeals Court Overturns Marine?s 2006 Murder conviction

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A U.S. military court recently threw out the murder conviction of a former Marine sergeant who was charged with killing in Iraqi man in 2006. The Washington D.C.-based military appeals court ruled that Lawrence Hutchins was not given a fair trial, since his defense attorney was inappropriately dismissed from his service just before the Hutchins? court martial went to trial, according to The Los Angeles Times. Hutchins is about four years into an 11-year prison sentence after he was convicted of killing Hashim Ibrahim Awad, 52, in the town of Hamandiya, west of Baghdad. Hutchins and eight other U.S. soldiers were charged with leading Awad to a ditch near his home and shooting him. Hutchins was convicted of unpremeditated murder and was dishonorably discharged...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Criminal Defense Blog on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).

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