Military prosecutors are asking the military’s highest court to
reinstate the overturned conviction of a Marine who played a role in
committing one of the worst war crimes to surface from the Iraq war,
which involved the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian.
Last month, military judges supported Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins III’s
claims that his rights were violated when he was held in solitary
confinement without access to a lawyer for seven days during his 2006
interrogation in Iraq. In a motion filed last week, military
prosecutors state that the Marine waived his right to counsel at the
time and willfully told his side of the story without being coerced, and
the prosecutors subsequently ask the court to reconsider its ruling.
The Marines’ defense lawyer has filed an opposition to the
government’s motion, asking the court to summarily dismiss it and to
immediately order the military to release his client.
To read more about this remarkable military court case, please click on the following link:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/govt-asks-court-reinstate-marines-conviction-19621406 – .UeGbQaUx9SU
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