Marine Corps veteran's bid for pardon
WXOW ABC 19
Posted: Dec 20, 2013
MADISON (WKOW) --- Marine Corps combat veteran Eric Pizer of Madison has commendations and medals, but feels his professional future hinges on something that's out of his grasp, so far: a pardon from Governor Walker.
"It upsets me," the 32-year old Pizer tells 27 News. "I was always told everybody should get a second chance."
During his military career, Pizer was involved in two deployments to the Middle East and the war in Iraq. His first deployment was to Kuwait, where the fuels specialist supported vehicles in combat convoys.
Pizer volunteered for his second tour, and was assigned to a base in Iraq, where rocket-propelled grenades frequently landed near barracks and buildings. As a corporal, he was responsible for a group of Marines, with all the members serving their first deployment to the war zone. "I felt it was my responsibility to look after those guys," Pizer says.
In 2004, while on leave back home in southern Wisconsin, Pizer got involved in an after-bar fight.
"One punch," Pizer tells 27 News of his actions.
Court records show Pizer's one punch badly broke a Boscobel man's nose, requiring thousands of dollars in medical care.
Pizer was convicted of a felony crime in Grant County, and served a probation sentence.
It is the former Marine's only criminal conviction, and he has satisfied the terms of his probation. He's also completed collegiate classes in criminal justice.
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