Friday, July 20, 2007

The Luckiest Marine Alive

Cpl. Trent D. Thomas was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and conspiracy to commit several offenses -- including murder, larceny, housebreaking, kidnapping, and making false official statements -- for his involvement in the April 2006 death in Hamdaniya, Iraq.

Thomas will be demoted to the rank of entry-level private and will receive a bad-conduct discharge.


Conspiracy to commit murder, larceny, housebreaking, kidnapping, and making false official statements and he didn't get a day of jail time. I don't know how military justice works, but that seems awfully light in view of the charges against this Marine. While the article is a bit lacking in details, I just would be very surprised if this wasn't very exceptional sentence for whatever reason. Normally, I would imagine that any Marine convicted of such charges would get a lot of jail time. Are there any Marines out there with knowledge of this type of thing to set us all hip?

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com

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