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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Marine with PTSD gets jail, not prison

Marine with PTSD gets jail, not prison, for attack on officer
Lynn Taylor Rick
Journal staff
November 14, 2012

Circuit Court Judge Mary Thorstenson agonized over what sentence to impose upon a U.S. Marine who suffered physical and mental injuries during his service in Iraq, who assaulted a Rapid City police officer in February.

Delano Eagle, 30, faced up to five years in prison for the Feb. 26 incident; he was found guilty last month of simple assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and third-offense drunken driving.

The case presented a challenge for the judge, because while the charges called for prison time, Eagle was a war veteran who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder after his 2007 deployment to Iraq.
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