Marine is sentenced in shooting of Iraqi man
17th Nov 2006, 01:05 GMT
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - A Marine private who pleaded guilty to reduced charges in the killing of an Iraqi civilian was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in custody. "You have a very fortuitous pretrial agreement," the judge told Pfc. John Jodka. Jodka was part of a squad of seven Marines and a Navy corpsman accused of kidnapping 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad in the town of Hamdania, taking him to a roadside hole, shooting him and then trying to cover up the incident. The military judge wanted to hand down a five-year punishment, but was bound by the terms of the plea deal.
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