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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 03:33 PM Feb 2017

Air Force officer's sexual assault sentence called lenient

Source: Associated Press

Air Force officer's sexual assault sentence called lenient

Feb. 26, 2017 12:33 PM EST

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An Air Force noncommissioned officer convicted of misconduct with eight women, including three who accused him of sexually assaulting them, was sentenced to three months confinement and another month of hard labor, a punishment a victims' rights advocate called "shockingly light."

Tech. Sgt. Anthony Lizana, 35, also was reduced in rank to airman first class and was given a dishonorable discharge Saturday night at his trial at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

The San Antonio Express-News reports (http://bit.ly/2lddvem ) the jury of two officers and five senior noncommissioned officers could have sentenced Lizana to nearly 38 years in prison for his conviction on four charges and eight specifications of misconduct that included dereliction, adultery, assault consummated by battery and sexual assault.

Military prosecutors originally lodged seven charges and 17 specifications of misconduct against him. Conviction on all those charges could have resulted in more than 87 years in prison.

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Wellstone ruled

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1. Wow,
Sun Feb 26, 2017, 03:40 PM
Feb 2017

this Guy threw away a Million Dollar Education by not abiding by his Ethics Handbook. Now that he is a Civilian and his job opportunities are just about none and he will have to register as a Sex Offender as well as be subject to Civil Action.

Talk about someone who just did not get it.

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