You have remembered it all correctly Flyer. The story is not just embedded in mystery but hidden under the guise of “classified” evidence.
Hamdania April 2006 was the height of the Al Anbar insurgency where the Marines were engaged not only in warfare but the never ending game of catch and release. Larry and his squad were operating away from their command (3/5) and attached to another unit/RCT instructed to find the Prince of Hamdania, aka Saleh Gowad
The identity of the “unarmed” Iraqi victim has never been determined - this fact was brought out and acknowledged by the prosecution at Hutchins court martial. Majority of evidence against Hutchins was classified and Hutchins defense team was granted very limited access to the classified evidence. This limited access to evidence is a wall to any defense team, especially one defending a client against murder.
How can you be convicted on a murder charge when no one knows who the body was? For all we know the body could have been Jimmy Hoffa.
BUMP and PING to #27.
It boggles the mind that the prosecutors got away with presenting what seems to be no case, and getting a conviction anyway.
Hmmm....