What Will Be The Lesson Learned From the Sentence of Marine Convicted in Killing of Unarmed Iraqi?

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Marine sentenced in Iraqi civilian’s shooting death

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

CAMP PENDLETON, CALIF.

A Marine was sentenced to 21 months in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to lesser charges in the killing of an unarmed Iraqi civilian whose body was left with an AK-47 to make him look like an insurgent.

Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr. entered his pleas to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice through his civilian attorney, Steve Immel, during court-martial proceedings. In return for his guilty pleas, the government dismissed other charges against Shumate, including murder, kidnapping, assault and conspiracy.

Shumate was part of a squad of seven Marines and a sailor who were charged with kidnapping 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad in the Iraqi town of Hamdania, dragging him to a roadside hole, shooting him and then trying to cover it up.

http://www.dispatch.com/national-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/11/22/20061122-A7-03.html



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[matcom]

1. that brown people aren't really people

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[magellan]

2. I hate deals like this

But it sounds as if there were bigger fish to fry among the squad that murdered this poor guy?

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3. I wonder what the sentence would have been in an Iraqi court?

or in a U.S. criminal court?

edit: he did make a deal . . .

His attorney says Shumate is expected to testify about the April incident in a deal that called for dismissal of the original charges, which included murder and kidnapping.

Two other Marines and the Navy corpsman have already pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Four senior squad members still face kidnapping and murder charges.

http://www.13wham.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=238DFED0-F8D3-40A5-9C7F-21FDD6D01033

[Preening Fop]

4. Murdering Iraqis Is Evidently, "No Big Deal"....!

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[NNN0LHI]

5. We will know why they hate us n/t