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WIESBADEN, Germany — An Army captain convicted in the shooting death of a wounded Iraqi man was dismissed from the service Friday but the military court allowed him to leave a free man. Capt. Roger Maynulet hugged his lawyers just after his sentence was read. Then he hugged his wife, whose sigh of relief was audible in the courtroom at Wiesbaden Army Airfield. Maynulet, 30, could have been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for his Thursday conviction on a charge of assault with the intent to commit voluntary manslaughter. Prosecutors had asked for a three-year prison sentence,...

    U.S. Soldier Convicted of Killing Iraqi Walks Free Fri Apr 1, 2005 11:41 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - A U.S. army tank company commander convicted of shooting dead a wounded Iraqi walked free from court on Friday, although he was dismissed from the army for what he called a "mercy killing." Army Captain Rogelio Maynulet had faced up to 10 years in jail after a court martial at a U.S. army base in Wiesbaden, Germany, found him guilty of assault with intent to commit voluntary manslaughter. "He was sentenced with dismissal from the United States Army ......

WIESBADEN, Germany -- A military court on Thursday found a U.S. Army tank company commander guilty of charges related to the shooting death of a wounded Iraqi last year. Capt. Rogelio "Roger" Maynulet, a 30-year-old from Chicago, stood at attention as the verdict was read. Maynulet told a military court in Germany he killed the unarmed man "to put him out of his misery," adding that it was "honorable." He maintained throughout his trial that he shot the man to end his suffering. But the military court in Germany found him guilty of assault with intent to commit voluntary manslaughter....

WIESBADEN, Germany An American tank commander says he shot a gravely wounded Iraqi man to death last year because it "was the right thing to do." Captain Roger Maynulet (MAN'-yoo-leht) tells a military court in Germany he killed the unarmed man "to put him out of his misery" and that it was "honorable." Maynulet's patrol wounded the man when it fired on a car during a search for militiamen south of Baghdad last May. Maynulet maintains the man was too badly injured to survive. He fired two more times. The 30-year-old from Chicago is being tried on a charge of...

IN THE MILITARY U.S. Army court-martials captain for mercy killing Medic 'spazzed out' over suspected Iraqi terrorist with mortal head wound -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: March 30, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com As brain-injured Terri Schiavo enters her 13th day of starvation in Florida after nearly a decade-long court dispute over her fate, a U.S. Army captain is being court-martialed in Wiesbaden, Germany, and facing 20 years for the mercy killing of a suspected Iraqi terrorist under battlefield conditions. The tank commander, Capt. Rogelio Maynulet of Chicago, is being tried on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder...

He was the commander of the Aggressors. An ass-kicking group of tankers out of the 1st Armored Division. He got the bullet hole in his flak vest the old fashioned way – in the dark of the night on some Iraqi back street. And when Najaf fell he was the one who told the world about the 40 insurgents they had to take out to make it so. He’s on trial this week. For something just short of murder. His name is Capt. Roger Maynulet. A 30-year-old out of the ROTC program at Champaign-Urbana. By all accounts he is a...

WIESBADEN, Germany — It was a huge mission, the defense said, a big part of the reason the 1st Armored Division had to extend past a year in Iraq. It was “traffic control,” the prosecution said, with the hope of detaining a high-value target. “The sum total of the operation?” prosecutor Capt. Dan Sennott asked Monday in his opening statement in the court-martial of Capt. Roger Maynulet, who is accused of assault with attempt to commit murder in the death of an Iraqi man last May. “Two detainees, a dead driver and — after searching 30 houses — one 9...

The court-martial of a 1st Armored Division captain accused of murdering an Iraqi man last year is set to begin March 28, according to Army officials. If coverage of the preliminary hearings last fall is any indication, the trial of Capt. Rogelio M. Maynulet should generate great interest among servicemembers and the media. Some view the case as “an act of mercy” to a dead or dying man, while Army prosecutors maintain it was murder. Maynulet is charged with premeditated murder and dereliction of duty relating to the May 21 death of a man believed to be associated with the...

BERLIN (AP) - A U.S. tank company commander accused of killing a critically injured Iraqi man who chauffeured radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will be court-martialled, an army spokesman said Tuesday. Capt. Rogelio Maynulet, 29, of Chicago will be tried on charges of assault with intent to commit murder and dereliction of duty, which carry a maximum combined sentence of 20½ years, said Maj. Michael Indovina. During Maynulet's military hearing - the equivalent of a civilian grand jury investigation - witnesses testified that the driver had been shot in the head when Maynulet saw him. A fellow officer said Maynulet told...

1st AD captain to face court-martial in shooting death of wounded Iraqi man Stars and Stripes European edition, Wednesday, December 8, 2004 A 1st Armored Division officer will stand trial on a charge that he fatally shot an unarmed, wounded Iraqi man while his unit was deployed downrange. Capt. Rogelio M. Maynulet, 29, of Chicago, now assigned to the division’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company, will be court-martialed on charges of assault with intent to commit murder and dereliction of duty, according to a 1st AD news release. He faces a maximum combined sentence of 20½ years in prison, said Maj....

HANAU, Germany, Sept 8 (AFP) - A US army captain charged with murdering an Iraqi follower of a radical Shiite Muslim cleric has claimed that he shot dead the man as an act of mercy, a military hearing was told Wednesday. Captain Rogelio Maynulet, 29, is charged with murdering the man on May 21 in an incident during which US troops fired at a civilian vehicle they believed had militia men aboard near the central Iraqi town of Kufa. Under US troop rules of engagement in Iraq, shooting at suspect cars is allowed under certain circumstances. Two men were...