A Marine jury is set to decide Thursday whether to return a Marine sergeant to prison for the 2006 killing of an Iraqi, a crime for which he already served more than six years.
Among the witnesses slated to seek leniency for Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins is Bing West, an ex-combat Marine and former U.S. assistant secretary of Defense under President Reagan.
"Enough is enough. It is time to move on," West said last week.
On Wednesday, the Marine jury — three officers and three senior enlisted personnel — found Hutchins guilty of the same charge that he was convicted of in 2007: unpremeditated murder in the shooting death of an unarmed civilian who was dragged from his home, bound and riddled with bullets.