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Los Angeles Times
June 19, 2015
Lopez served with Hutchins in Hamandiya, Iraq, but was not part of the squad that later was charged with murder. Bouza was born in the Middle East and has made 10 deployments as a Marine to the region, including one to Iraq that concluded only weeks ago. Both were called by the defense as the juryÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
June 17, 2015
NCIS agents coerced "a bunch of scared kids who just wanted to go home" into making incriminating statements, Oprison told the retrial jury, composed of three officers and three senior enlisted personnel. Hutchins did not testify. The killing occurred in the Iraqi community of Hamandiya, west of Baghdad.
Los Angeles Times
June 14, 2015
Prosecutors portray Hutchins as the ringleader who convinced his squad to kill an Iraqi in Hamandiya, west of Baghdad, as a warning to others not to plant roadside bombs or cooperate with insurgent snipers. Hutchins told the squad that they were going to kill "any Iraqi male, because this town is going toÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
June 7, 2015
Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins was convicted in 2007 by a Marine jury of unpremeditated murder in the killing of a 52-year-old former Iraqi police officer in Hamandiya, west of Baghdad. Advertisement. The killing was meant as a warning to Iraqis to stop planting roadside bombs and cooperating with insurgentÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
February 15, 2011
Hutchins had served four years of an 11-year sentence after being convicted as the ringleader of a plot to kidnap and murder a retired Iraqi police officer in Hamandiya, west of Baghdad. But those appeals proved unsuccessful. Hutchins' attorneys have filed another appeal, but Hutchins was ordered back toÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
January 12, 2011
Hutchins had served four years of an 11-year sentence meted out after he was convicted of unpremeditated murder in the shooting of a 52-year-old Iraqi man in the village of Hamandiya in 2006. The military appealed the 2010 ruling. Hearing that appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed ServicesÃâà...
Los Angeles Times (blog)
June 7, 2010
According to court-martial testimony, Hutchins was the ringleader in a plot to drag a suspected insurgent from his home and kill him as a warning to other insurgents to stop attacking Marines with roadside bombs and sniper shots in the Hamandiya area west of Baghdad. An attempt to make the killing lookÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
May 31, 2008
... particularly officers, to high standards of conduct. He advanced investigations that led to charges against Marines for Iraqi deaths in Haditha, Hamandiya, Fallouja and a detention center outside Nasiriyah. He was also instrumental in the censure of a two-star general and two colonels in the Haditha case.
Los Angeles Times
May 15, 2008
The Marines in Anbar province are no longer engaged in daily firefights. But courts-martial continue at Camp Pendleton arising from allegations of misconduct by Marines when combat was a daily occurrence. * HAMANDIYA. Lawrence Hutchins (left), convicted as the ringleader in the killing of an unarmedÃâà...
CNN
June 4, 2006
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Pentagon is investigating the deaths of more than two dozen Iraqi civilians, including women and children, by U.S. troops. Under investigation is the alleged massacre by Marines of 24 civilians in Haditha last November; the death of an Iraqi civilian near Hamandiya, west ofÃâà...
