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June 19th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
A US military jury has found an American Marine guilty of murdering an unarmed retired Iraqi police officer back in 2006. Although he faced the possibility of further jail time, the jury sentenced him to time served in confinement on Thursday.
Marine Sergeant Lawrence
Hutchins III was also granted a bad conduct discharge from the
Marine Corps, Reuters reported.
On Wednesday, Hutchins was convicted of murder, larceny and
conspiracy over the death of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, a 52-year-old
retired Iraqi officer who lived in Hamdania, about 21 miles
southeast of Mosul. He had previously been convicted in 2007, but
that decision was overturned on two separate occasions. The Navy
was able to earn a retrial, and Hutchins was convicted again.
He was also originally convicted of making false statements about
the killing, but was acquitted of that charge on Wednesday.
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Hutchins was first sentenced to 15 years in prison back in 2007,
though that sentence was later reduced to 11 years. Since he had
served nearly seven years in prison while the appeals process was
playing out and the retrial was initiated, the maximum sentence
he could have received was the remaining four years.
Instead, the jury decided that no more prison time would be
necessary.
As reported by Reuters, Hutchins was the leader of a Marine squad
operating in Hamdania, which was looking to prevent further use
of improvised explosives on roads. Hutchins was accused of
dragging Awad from his house, tossing him inside of a hole and
shooting him, the Los Angeles Times reported. The incident
occurred in 2006. After Awad was killed, Hutchins’ group
allegedly planted a gun near his body and told their superiors
that he had been an enemy.
According to one of Hutchins’ squad mates who testified at the
retrial, Hutchins gloated about getting away with murder, the LA
Times reported. Others who had previously made statements against
their squad leader said they no longer stood by them and declined
to testify again.
Hutchins’ defense team argued during the retrial that the
investigation into the incident had been bungled and that
investigators had rushed to judgment.
Both times military courts previously overturned Hutchins’
original conviction, it was over procedural mishaps. In 2010, it
was because one of Hutchins’ statements, which he had given in
custody, should have been categorized as inadmissible evidence,
Reuters reported. When the conviction was later reinstated, a
military appeals court overturned it again in 2013 because the
military had not allowed Hutchins access to an attorney for one
week at the beginning of the investigation.
Source Article from http://rt.com/usa/268252-us-marine-murder-iraqi-sentence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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