Graner is sentenced

Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr. was sentenced to 10 years behind bars Saturday for physically and sexually mistreating Iraqis in the first court-martial stemming from at Abu Ghraib prison scandal, an embarrassment to the U.S. military fueled by the release of graphic photographs.

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Graner, labeled the leader of a band of rogue guards at the Baghdad prison in late 2003, will be dishonorably discharged when his sentence is completed. He also was demoted to private and ordered to forfeit all pay and benefits.

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Asked if he felt remorse after the sentence was handed down, Graner said, "There's a war on. Bad things happen."

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"He's scared to death," Irma Graner said later.
  SF Gate article

Of what, Irma? He's not going to be guarded by military soldiers in Iraq. And he's not going to Gitmo.

Zeynep thinks that, like Martha Stewart's conviction ended any media coverage of corporate crime, Graner's conviction will end what little attention was still being paid to the torture issue.

Perhaps, but they still have Lynndie's trial coming up. And there is still a lot of international attention on the torture at Gitmo.

Under military court rules, Graner's case will be automatically appealed to the Army Court of Criminal Appeals. He also could request clemency from his commanding general.