Retrial set for Marine in killing of Iraqi civilian, last of Pendleton 8

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Los Angeles Times:

Retrial set for Marine in killing of Iraqi civilian, last of Pendleton 8

 

By TONY PERRYcontact the reporter

 

Retrial is set to begin Monday at Camp Pendleton for a Marine convicted in the 2006 killing of an Iraqi civilian -- one of the most high-profile and legally and politically complex court martials of the Iraq war.

 

Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins was convicted in 2007 by a Marine jury of unpremeditated murder in the killing of a 52-year-old former Iraqi police officer in Hamandiya, west of Baghdad.

 

The killing was meant as a warning to Iraqis to stop planting roadside bombs and cooperating with insurgent snipers attacking U.S. troops.