More Legal Good News in the Aftermath of Iraq Prosecutions

On the heels of multiple dismissals in the SEAL case, a court has dismissed a murder conviction for a Marine after the actions in Iraq.

A military appeals court Thursday threw out the murder conviction of a Marine serving time for the kidnapping and slaying of an Iraqi man, one of the biggest criminal cases against U.S. troops to come out of the Iraqi war.

The ruling by the U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Appeals in Washington sets the stage for the release of Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III — the only military man convicted for the April 2006 death of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, 52, in the village of Hamdania.

By: Brant