Posted on 12/19/2016 1:38:33 PM PST by KeyLargo
Congressman joins push to secure presidential pardon for imprisoned Army lieutenant
By: Meghann Myers, December 13, 2016
Just over three years into his 19-year sentence, and on his 32nd birthday, the mother of Clint Lorance, a platoon leader convicted of giving his soldiers the go-ahead to shoot and kill three unarmed Afghan civilians, is making a plea to President Obama to send her son home.
The incident happened during a 2012 Afghanistan deployment. Lorance, a first lieutenant at the time, was convicted in 2013 of two counts of second-degree murder, having ordered a private first class to shoot the civilians, two of whom died while the third ran away.
His mother, Anna Lorance, appeared on Sean Hannity's radio show Tuesday, along with her son's lawyer and Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., to make her son's case. Hunter is the first lawmaker to join the call for a presidential pardon for Lorance.
Lorance's mother believes his actions allowed himself and his platoon mates from 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment to survive that interaction.
"I dont have a folded flag today. I can still see my son, but I want him home where he deserves to be," she told Hannity.
Lorance and her husband, Terry, also recorded a video segment for The Hannity Show's website.
"I think its important to know that he never fired his weapon," defense attorney John Maher told Hannity, emphasizing that Lorance never saw the men and was operating on intelligence from his soldiers.
Conviction stands for LT convicted in Afghan slayings Forensic evidence linked DNA from the Afghan men to DNA found on detonated IEDs and explosive devices that had terrorized the unit through that deployment, according to Lorance's attorney.
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Lorance's supporters have long pushed for his exoneration. Last year, they launched a White House petition calling for a presidential pardon for Lorance.
Dec 19, 2016
HONOLULU (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama shortened the prison sentences for 153 convicts, mainly low-level drug offenders, and pardoned 78 others, the White House said on Monday.
Obama has commuted the sentences of 1,176 federal prisoners, the White House said, as part of a push to reduce the number of people serving long sentences for non-violent drug offenses.
In 2014, Obama announced he would use his clemency powers to reduce sentences he saw as overly harsh. That came after criminal justice bills aimed at non-violent drug offenders stalled in Congress.
I’ve been following this and didn’t expect to see his name on the list. I wasn’t surprised.
Obama needs to pardon this young man.
Let Trump do it.
If Obama pardoned him it would be a stain on him for the rest of his life. Let Trump do it. Then it would be honorable.
Obama won’t even look at or consider pardoning him.
Trump, OTOH, will look into it and, IMHO, probably pardon him because he was operating in the fog of war to save his men after they had all been attacked and harassed.
Very little chance of Obama issuing a pardon for this young man.
There are simply too many drug dealers ahead of him in line.
I thought we can’t post from AT per the copyright list? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts
+1
Sorry, wrong melanin levels.
This shows how closely I’ve been following politics in my previous city of residence: I didn’t even know Duncan Hunter’s son had won his old congressional district. I was wondering how, after the corruption conviction, Hunter could have won his seat back.
A closer look at the case of Lt. Clint Lorance
Jan. 29, 2015 - 6:33 - Army officer convicted for killing two Afghan men in war zone
HANNITY - VIDEO
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4021681269001/?#sp=show-clips
Some feel-good video from 2012.
[GRAPHIC] FLIR Footage of Taliban - Afghanistan 2012 (ORIGINAL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE661hmLjtU
Him and Terry Lakin (sp?)
He’s awesome! I wished that trump put him in his cabinet but maybe God has plans for him in the house.
Nope. Obviously, they were blowed up, not shot (according to your information)!
Great terrorist plinkin’ video!
He is a white. He is a soldier. He is not a leftist. He is not a druggie.
I think this will have to wait for a non-Muslim non-Marxist President.
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