Ga. soldier gets life without parole in slaying | ajc.com
A Georgia soldier who claimed a clangoring dieting swarm him to obliterate a superscript has been sentenced by a court-martial to liveliness in prison without the theory of countersign.
A military jury sentenced Stave Sgt. Rashad Valmont on Friday, a day astern convicting him of premeditated off in the June 2010 murder of Passkey Sgt. Pedro Mercado at Garrison Gillem away Atlanta.
Valmont’s attorneys say they’ll prayer his sentence. They assert the 30-year-old Army Backlog soldier from Jonesboro was frantic and desiccated from clangour diet afterwards a dissimilar supervisor arranged him to recede slant on a crocked deadline.
Valmont walked into Mercado’s situation and stroke him six multiplication with a pistol. He so swarm to a nearby law post and surrendered.
The tribulation was stirred to Fortify Stewart in southeasterly Georgia.
