Sgt. Hasan Akbar: Guilty
A military jury only needed two and a half hours to decide that Sgt. Hasan Akbar was guilty of murder. This is the case of the rogue soldier who attacked a tent in Kuwait with grenades and rifle fire in the days leading up to the war. This same jury will reconvene to determine if the death penalty should be recommended. Killed in the middle-of-the-night attack were Army Capt. Christopher
Seifert, 27, who was shot in the back, and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, who suffered 83 shrapnel wounds. The 101st was preparing to move into Iraq in support of the U.S. invasion when the attack occurred on March 22, 2003....
Akbar, who turned 34 Thursday, was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder. Jurors nine officers and six non-commissioned officers had the ability to consider lesser charges, but chose not to.
If sentenced to death, Akbar would become the sixth soldier on military death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
So Cal Lawyer has more here.
