Joint base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) -a military panel sentenced five person Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs Thursday all against him, including the murder of three Afghan civilians.
A verdict is delivered in a courtroom near Tacoma, drafty military world of small, sun-baked Him accused of terrorizing Afghan village as the leader of what prosecutors call a rogue group of soldiers that targeted civilians.
A Panel of three officers and two conscripts negotiate shortly before 10 am (1 pm ET) and returned with a verdict around 3 pm (6 PM ET).
Gibbs is the highest rank in the Department of Justice five soldiers accused of killing an Afghan village, planting a gun on them and cut off parts of the body to keep it as a war trophy. Seven other soldiers were charged with a crime is lower as intimidating fellow soldiers not to speak out against the alleged murder and platoon illegal drug use is rampant.
“Sergeant Gibbs has charisma, he has a personality that is ‘ follow me ‘,” major Robert Stelle, Prosecutor in the case, told the Court in closing arguments Wednesday. “But it’s a bunch of garbage, he’s own mission: murder and depravity.”