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Arizona Daily Star (Tucson)
January 15, 2008 California
SAN DIEGO — A senior Marine Corps drill instructor convicted of dereliction of duty but acquitted of maltreating recruits has been sentenced to a reduction in rank and 90 days of hard labor without confinement.
A military jury handed down the sentence to Sgt. Robert Hankins late Friday. Hankins and two junior drill instructors faced courts-martial for what prosecutors said was the rampant abuse of recruits at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego between December 2006 and February 2007.
The sentence reduces Hankins' rank to lance corporal.
January 15, 2008 California
SAN DIEGO — A senior Marine Corps drill instructor convicted of dereliction of duty but acquitted of maltreating recruits has been sentenced to a reduction in rank and 90 days of hard labor without confinement.
A military jury handed down the sentence to Sgt. Robert Hankins late Friday. Hankins and two junior drill instructors faced courts-martial for what prosecutors said was the rampant abuse of recruits at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego between December 2006 and February 2007.
The sentence reduces Hankins' rank to lance corporal.