06/27/2013
A military appeals court Wednesday tossed out the high-profile conviction of a Marine from Camp Pendleton for the killing of an unarmed Iraqi man in 2006 in Hamandiya, west of Baghdad.
The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled that Larry Hutchins was improperly denied a lawyer when investigators in Iraq first began to question him about the killing. He was put in solitary confinement for seven days, according to his lawyer, Babu Kaza.
"At that point he broke and informed NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) that he would give them what they wanted," Kaza said.
The government could appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, or the Marine Corps could seek a new trial.
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A military appeals court Wednesday tossed out the high-profile conviction of a Marine from Camp Pendleton for the killing of an unarmed Iraqi man in 2006 in Hamandiya, west of Baghdad.
The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled that Larry Hutchins was improperly denied a lawyer when investigators in Iraq first began to question him about the killing. He was put in solitary confinement for seven days, according to his lawyer, Babu Kaza.
"At that point he broke and informed NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) that he would give them what they wanted," Kaza said.
The government could appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, or the Marine Corps could seek a new trial.
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