[Ben Mugged]

Prosecutors said that during a nighttime patrol in Hamdania, Iraq, in April 2006, Hutchins' squad hatched a plan to kidnap and kill a suspected insurgent from his house (IMHO a good plan). When they couldn't find him, they instead kidnapped a man from a neighboring house (IMHO this is where his plan went wrong), dragged him to a hole and shot him.

He had been identified as Hashim Ibrahim Awad, 52, but the name was dropped after defense attorneys contended the identity was not conclusive.

Prosecutors said squad members tried to cover up the killing by planting a shovel and AK-47 by his body to make it look like he was an insurgent planting a bomb.

Several witnesses testified the plot was born out of frustration after suspected insurgents kept evading prosecution.

The Iraqi may not have been innocent, but maybe he was. In the fog of war I could easily be convinced to side with the Sgt, but this was not the fog of war. It was not the soldiers place to be his judge and jury. Frustration is not a rationalization to kill.

He was found guilty by a jury of his peers.

[jazusamo]

I don’t dispute he was found guilty by a jury of his peers, he was.

I personally believe not all the evidence was allowed because they are not even sure of the identity of the victim. A jury should be shown all the evidence and the NCIS did not have all the evidence because they botched the investigation.