Court May Reinstate Camp Pendleton Marine’s Murder Conviction

Court May Reinstate Camp Pendleton Marine’s Murder Conviction In Hamdania Case
KPBS News
By Beth Ford Roth
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Prosecutors have asked the military court that threw out the murder conviction of Camp Pendleton Marine Lawrence Hutchins III to reconsider reinstating it, according to the Associated Press.

A military court in 2007 convicted Hutchins of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, making a false official statement, and larceny. Hutchins led an eight-man squad that kidnapped and killed unarmed Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania in 2006.

But last month, as Home Post reported, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overturned Hutchins' conviction. The court agreed with Hutchins' assertion that his constitutional rights were violated when he was withheld access to his attorney during his interrogation.
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