SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Marine sergeant who is being retried in an Iraq war crimes case has been arraigned on charges that include murder and obstruction of justice.
U-T San Diego says (https://bit.ly/1jhpmBI ) Lawrence Hutchins III didn’t enter a plea Thursday at Camp Pendleton in California. His motions asking for a new judge and defense attorney are still being considered.
Hutchins says the defense lawyer assigned to him has been a judge in the past who ruled against him.
Hutchins in the 2006 killing of a retired Iraqi policeman in the village of Hamdania (hahm-dah-NEE’-ah).
A retrial was ordered after the military’s highest court overturned the 29-year-old’s murder conviction last summer. That court ruled his rights were violated by interrogators in 2006.
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Information from: U-T San Diego, https://www.utsandiego.com
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