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...terse, four-paragraph statement from U.S. Third Army Commander Lieut. General Albert O. Connor concluded: "It was determined that the conviction was correct in law and fact and that the reduced sentence was appropriate for the offenses for which he was convicted." Thus the conviction of Lieut. William L. Calley was upheld, but his sentence-for the premeditated murder of at least 22 Vietnamese civilians and assault with intent to murder a small child-was changed from life imprisonment to 20 years. Calley, confined to his apartment at Fort Benning, Ga., since President Nixon personally intervened 44 months...
Connor's decision came in the first round of legal appeals open to Calley and his defense lawyers. Military law provides four additional opportunities for Galley's sentence to be approved or reduced; the final review is by the President. Galley's dismissal from the Army and loss of pay were upheld by Connor, but the Army will continue to pay for his rent, food and utilities in the private apartment at Fort Benning that is considered the legal equivalent of a cell. There, under the relaxed guard of a single MP, with a color television...
Drawing Doodles. Galley lifts weights in his living room to keep in shape, is allowed on the lawn behind his apartment for daily exercise periods. Neighbors have seen several bags of cow manure delivered to fertilize the vegetables Calley grows in his backyard. His evening meal is occasionally prepared by Miss Moore...
...Medina of command responsibility for what went on in the ill-fated village. Relaxed and apparently unconcerned as the men who once served under him take the stand to testify for the prosecution, Medina passes his courtroom time drawing doodles of the newsmen covering his trial. As Medina and Calley await the results of the legal proceedings against them, the cases of nine other soldiers implicated in earlier investigations were closed. Five officers and four enlisted men received administrative reprimands for their roles in the massacre...
Violated Conventions. Eventually, claims Hammer, the outgunned defense tried to turn the court-martial into a near trial of Galley's commander, Captain Ernest L. Medina. The defense produced soldiers who claimed that Medina had ordered the slaughter of civilians. Calley, it was argued, had no choice; he could not disobey his superior. Medina denied giving such orders, and the Army's young prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel III, was able to draw from a surprising number of defense witnesses the admission that they had disobeyed Galley's order to fire into the assembled groups of civilians...