Charges Dismissed Against MARSOC Medic in Death of Green Beret After Threats by Senior Officer
Military
By Matt White & Hannah Ray Lambert | February 10, 2022
A senior Marine lawyer’s actions were the “mortal enemy of military justice,” a military judge ruled Wednesday, Feb. 9, as he dismissed all charges against a Marine Special Operations Command, or MARSOC, corpsman who faced counts of manslaughter in the 2019 death of an American security contractor in Iraq.
Military judge Navy Cmdr. Hayes C. Larsen found that a Marine colonel committed unlawful command influence over the trial of Navy Chief Petty Officer Eric Gilmet by threatening the career prospects of one of Gilmet’s defense lawyers.
“The facts in this case can be boiled down to a simple advert,” Larsen wrote in freeing Gilmet. “A senior judge advocate who occupied a position of authority over the futures of young judge advocates made threatening comments to a young judge advocate about his career.”
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