Conviction Reduced in Iraqi Death Case

Conviction Reduced in Iraqi Death Case
May 21, 2008
Associated Press

HONOLULU - The Army on May 20 reduced the conviction and sentence of a Soldier tried for murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Iraqi last year.

A court-martial panel in February found Christopher Shore not guilty of third-degree murder in the June 2007 death near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. But the panel found Shore guilty of aggravated assault.

Brig. Gen. J. Michael Bednarek, acting commander of the 25th Infantry Division, reduced that conviction to assault, a misdemeanor. The change erased the Soldier's felony record.

Last month, a separate court-martial found Shore's platoon sergeant, Sgt. 1st Class Trey Corrales, not guilty of premeditated, or first-degree, murder in the same incident.

The general also reduced Shore's prison sentence from 120 days to 72 days, or the equivalent of the time already served.


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