Friday, October 14, 2011

Marine in prison for killing Iraqi allowed to be with wife during labor

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A Marine from Camp Pendleton serving a prison sentence in the killing of an unarmed Iraqi has been granted emergency leave from the brig so he can be with his wife as she delivers the couple's second child, a boy.

Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, granted the leave to Lawrence Hutchins, now being held at the brig at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, according to the North County Times.

Hutchins will be brought under guard to the hospital at Camp Pendleton so he can be with his wife, Reyna. She is set to have labor induced Monday, the newspaper said.

Reyna Hutchins became pregnant when her husband was free on appeal. The couple has a 6-year-old daughter.

In August, an assistant secretary of the Navy rejected a parole recommendation for Hutchins. The Navy Clemency and Parole Board had recommended that Hutchins be paroled, but Assistant Secretary Juan Garcia said parole would be "premature."

Hutchins, then a sergeant and squad leader, was the leader of a plot to kill an unarmed Iraqi suspected of cooperating with insurgents who were attacking Marines with roadside bombs in the Hamdania area in 2006. He was convicted at a court-martial in 2007.

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