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 don’t 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 it’s 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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“”I was wondering how, after the corruption conviction, Hunter could have won his seat back.””
I don’t recall that he was convicted of anything. Nor do I find anything related to that. He was not involved in the Cunningham mess and that’s all I find. What are you talking about?
please pardon him...
Not a single solider on any trumped up charge has been pardoned by the so called military loving President. I hope President Trump will grant a full and complete pardon to this LT so he can get back to his life and career.
She’d be better off waiting until Jan 21 and getting President Trump to pardon her son.
I hope he will also pardon and restore ALL RIGHTS TO Dinesh D’Souza
These are the type people DUMBO pardons. Not Patriots.
Drug dealers.
President Obama Grants Commutations and Pardons
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/19/president-obama-grants-commutations-and-pardons-0
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