FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - A military panel has heard testimony about the murder of three Iraqis in 2006 as members decide a new sentence for a Fort Campbell soldier.
Last year, a military appeals court overturned the negligent homicide conviction of Staff Sgt. Ray Girouard of Sweetwater, Tennessee.
This week, a panel at the post will decide on a new sentence for his remaining convictions, related to his actions to try to cover up the murders committed by two of his solders.
Girouard was one of four soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division charged in the death of the detainees during a raid near Samarra, Iraq.
He previously testified that he did not order his squad to kill the detainees, but he tried to help them cover it up by staging an attack.
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