Deliberations begin Friday at Camp Pendleton, Calif., in the sentencing of Marine Corps squad leader Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III. Hutchins was convicted of murdering an Iraqi man in Iraq during a frustrated search for an insurgent.
A separate jury sentenced Cpl. Marshall Magincalda, who was found guilty of larceny and housebreaking but acquitted of murder, to time served.
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