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The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017.
Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement.
Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer. The decision was first reported by the military online publication Task & Purpose.
A military jury acquitted Gallagher this summer of murder for the death of the wounded captive, attempted murder Newport 100s Box in the shootings of unarmed Iraqi civilians and other charges during his deployment to Mosul, Iraq.
He was convicted of the single count of posing with the casualty — dealing a major blow to one of the Navy's most high-profile war crimes cases