Hutchins convicted of murder -- again

Marine Sgt Lawrence Hutchins III was again found guilty of murdering Hashim Ibrahim Awad, a 52-year-old Iraqi policeman, in Hamdania in 2006, and then doing a weapon drop to cover it up. it's the second time he was convicted -- earlier convictions were overturned twice -- and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces had earlier ruled that his rights were  violated when he was originally held in solitary confinement for 7 days without access to a lawyer. Reportedly, others in his squad were reluctant to testify again out of shame.

Hutchins has already served 7 years of an 11-year sentence. The military jury sentenced him to time served the next day, which means that he will go probably home. "This is not about killing. This is about murder," said the lead prosecutor. "This is about the wholesale abandonment of moral prowess." Yep.