{"id":28430,"date":"2012-01-23T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28430"},"modified":"2012-01-23T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:01:02","slug":"staff-sgt-frank-wuterich-pleads-out-in-haditha-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28430","title":{"rendered":"Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich pleads out in Haditha trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word is just now leaking out that Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the last defendant in the Haditha trial has accepted a plea deal that would have him pleading guilty to a single count of dereliction of duty in regards to the incident in Haditha, to which the entire Bush Derangement Syndrome community had pinned their hopes for this generation&#8217;s My Lai Massacre. Reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2012\/01\/plea-bargain-reached-to-end-marine-trial-in-iraqi-killings.html\">LA Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prosecutors recommended  a sentence of three months in the brig. That decision will be made by the judge.<\/p>\n<p>With the trial set to resume at 8:30 a.m. Monday, the judge, Lt. Col. David Jones, sent jurors home without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Neal Puckett, one of Wuterich&#8217;s lawyers, told the North County Times that the decision to accept an agreement was made by Wuterich and that his client thought it was the &#8220;right and honorable thing to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wuterich hugged his parents and members of a small support group that had attended the trial. The agreement must be approved by Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, but that is considered pro-forma.<\/p>\n<p>Wuterich, 31, was accused of manslaughter, assault and dereliction of duty for allegedly leading his squad on a bloody rampage on the morning of Nov. 19, 2005, after a roadside bomb killed one Marine and injured two in the Euphrates River town of Haditha.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was no comment from John Murtha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word is just now leaking out that Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the last defendant in &hellip; <a title=\"Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich pleads out in Haditha trial\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28430\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich pleads out in Haditha trial<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}