[Excerpt: "He was sentenced with dismissal from the United States Army
... there will be no confinement time," a military spokesman
said......Staff Sergeant Johnny Horne was sentenced to three years in
jail and Staff Sergeant Cardenas Alban to one year over the Iraqi's
death.....Local Iraqis said the men on the truck were innocent rubbish
collectors.]
U.S. Soldier Convicted of Killing Iraqi Walks Free
Fri Apr 1, 2005 11:41 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A U.S. army tank company commander convicted of
shooting dead a wounded Iraqi walked free from court on Friday, although
he was dismissed from the army for what he called a "mercy killing."
Army Captain Rogelio Maynulet had faced up to 10 years in jail after a
court martial at a U.S. army base in Wiesbaden, Germany, found him
guilty of assault with intent to commit voluntary manslaughter.
"He was sentenced with dismissal from the United States Army ... there
will be no confinement time," a military spokesman said.
Prosecutors had pressed for conviction on a more serious charge of
assault with intent to commit murder, which carries a maximum 20-year
jail sentence.
The shooting occurred last May when U.S. troops were pursuing suspected
militiamen supporting Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr near the Iraqi city
of Najaf, the court was told.
U.S. soldiers fired on a car, wounding the driver and a passenger.
Maynulet said he then shot dead the driver to put him out of his misery.
"He was in a state I didn't think was dignified. I had to put him out of
his misery," Maynulet said in his defense according to U.S. military's
Stars and Stripes magazine.
The jury was shown footage of the shooting filmed by a U.S. surveillance
drone.
The mercy killing argument was used by the defense in the cases of two
U.S. soldiers who were convicted in December and January of murdering an
Iraqi.
The man suffered severe abdominal wounds and burns when U.S. troops
attacked a rubbish truck they suspected guerrillas were using.
Staff Sergeant Johnny Horne was sentenced to three years in jail and
Staff Sergeant Cardenas Alban to one year over the Iraqi's death.
Local Iraqis said the men on the truck were innocent rubbish collectors.
� Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.
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