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Sunday, July 30, 2017
Judges appear prepared to uphold 18-month sentence
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe court appears to be preparing to approve the 18-month prison sentence, noting: “The punishment is on the lower edge of appropriate sentencing. But the [lower] court considered the circumstances of the crime.”
The act, the appeals judges say, is “forbidden, severe, immoral. The appellant had an intent to kill the assailant.”
Even so, judges note, the circumstances of the Palestinian victim’s crime minutes earlier — the stabbing of a fellow soldier in Azaria’s unit — as well as their finding that Azaria did not plan the killing, are mitigating circumstances.
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