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Marine Faces Retrial for 2006 Haditha Killing

HeadlineJan 30, 2014

A U.S. marine whose conviction was overturned for the 2006 killing of an Iraqi civilian is facing a new trial. Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins had been the only one of seven U.S. servicemembers involved to receive a murder conviction. He served six years in prison before being freed after an appeals court ruled prosecutors used inadmissible evidence. The victim, Hashim Ibrahim Awad, was dragged from his home in the town of Haditha, shot, and then planted with a weapon to make it appear he was planning an attack. The Marine Corps says Hutchins will now be retried on the same charges.

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