Leader of a a rogue army unit that killed three Afghan civilians last year for sport and fun finally convicted
Sonja Gonics
Nov. 11, 2011
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People in Afghanistan are not happy at the fact that the rogue soldier was sentenced to life in prison but could be eligible for parole in less than 10 years.
The soldier, staff Sgt Calvin Gibbs, 26, of Billings , Montana, was found guilty of three counts of murder , of conspiring to commit murder and other charges, including assaulting a fellow soldier and taking fingers and a tooth from the dead.
The verdict, decided in less than a day of deliberations by a five-member panel after a nine-day court-martial at a base 45 miles south of Seattle, was a decisive victory for military prosecutor, according to US Military sources.
Five soldiers were charged with killing civilians in three separate Afghanistan episodes early last year.
Sergeant Gibbs's lawyer, Phillip Stackhouse, tried to convince the panel that most of the soldiers who accused his client were doing so to get more lenient sentences
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