Plymouth Marine Faces Return To Brig In Iraq War Crime Case

February 15, 2011 5:13 PM

Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins (AP Photo/Denis Poroy,File Image from 2006)

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SAN DIEGO (AP) – A defense lawyer says a Camp Pendleton Marine from Plymouth, Mass., is heading back to the brig after a military high court reinstated his Iraq murder conviction.

Defense lawyer Babu Kaza said Tuesday the Marine Corps told his team that Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins would serve out the remaining five years of his sentence. The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overturned a lower court ruling that threw out his conviction last spring.

Hutchins was released eight months ago after the lower court ruled his 2007 trial was unfair because his lead defense lawyer quit shortly before it began.

Prosecutors say Hutchins led a squad that dragged a man from his home and killed him in the Iraqi village of Hamdania in 2006. Hutchins said he was not present.

Plymouth Marine Faces Return To Brig In Iraq War Crime Case

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[...] PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) – A Camp Pendleton Marine has been returned to custody serve out the remainder of a prison sentence following reinstatement of his conviction in the murder of an Iraqi man. Lt. Col. Joseph Kloppel [...]