Lynndie england biography of martin
President Obama's decision not to prosecute government lawyers who wrote Bush-era memos authorizing torture at CIA prisons — or the CIA officers..
England: Joined the reserves to pay her way through college |
A military jury in Texas convicted her on one count of conspiracy, four counts of maltreating detainees and one count of committing an indecent act.
England, 22, was acquitted on a second conspiracy count.
During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations.
She has become the face of a scandal that has stained the US military's reputation.
The world has seen her in a series of photos: grinning behind a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners and holding an Iraqi detainee on a leash at Abu Ghraib jail.
The soldier pleaded guilty at a court martial in May under a plea deal that would have reduced her sentence to a maximum of 11 years.
But in a move that shocked military legal experts, a judge rejected the plea agreement and declared a mistrial.
He said testimony from Charles Graner, already convicted over his role in the abuse, suggested that Pte England did not genu