Military jury sentences U.S. Marine convicted of Iraq murder to time served

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Fri Jun 19, 2015 2:58am EDT

Military jury sentences U.S. Marine convicted of Iraq murder to time served

CAMP PENDLETON, CALIF. | BY MARTY GRAHAM

A U.S. Marine convicted of the 2006 murder of a former Iraqi police officer was sentenced on Thursday to time he had already served in confinement, in a decision by a military jury at Camp Pendleton in California.

The jury also gave Marine Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins III a bad-conduct discharge from the Marine Corps. He had served about seven years in confinement and had faced a possible sentence of four more years.

After the killing in Iraq came to light, then-U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus called it a "cold-blooded murder".

On Wednesday, the military jury at the Southern California base found Hutchins guilty of murder, conspiracy and larceny but acquitted him of a charge of making false statements.

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[marble falls]

1. He's the token murderer punished for a crime that was wide spread and vastly unprosecuted.