Major Guilty of Lesser Charges in Death (to get up to one year)

[Rose Siding]

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A military jury acquitted a Marine major of assault and battery Wednesday in connection with the death of an Iraqi prisoner, but found him guilty of two lesser counts.

Maj. Clarke Paulus faces dismissal from the Marines and up to a year in military prison instead of the 1 1/2 years he could have received if convicted on all charges. He was found guilty of maltreatment and dereliction of duty.
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Paulus, 36, of the Philadelphia suburb of Buckingham, Pa., commanded the Marine detention facility at Camp Whitehorse in Iraq (news - web sites). He was accused of ordering a subordinate to drag Nagem Sadoon Hatab by the neck out of a holding cell in June 2003 after the man suffered a bout of diarrhea.

Hatab was stripped naked and left outside for seven hours before he was found dead.

Prosecutors contended Paulus failed to properly safeguard Hatab's health and welfare and failed to provide him with proper medical care.

On Tuesday, a military prosecutor said Paulus set the wrong example for his troops and the result was the death of a prisoner.

"Maj. Paulus set the example that it was OK to be cruel and inhumane to an old man who was sick, and that's exactly how he was treated: cruelly and inhumanely," prosecutor Maj. Leon Francis said in closing arguments.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=3&u=/ap/20041111/ap_on_re_us/prisoner_abuse

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. In Alabama, you can get ten years for a DUI,,, I guess it would be better

for people to just star killing outright to get on with their lives when something upsets them.

[CaptainCorc]

2. Listen....Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time....

...and morphed into Tom Yossarian Joad. How could you leave a fox like Montana Wildhack?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. When you have Yossaian as a middle name

there isn't much left behind....

[newyawker99]

4. Hi CaptainCorc!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: