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(29,876 posts) Mon Mar 11, 2013, 01:37 PM Mar 2013

Hagel To Review Air Force Sexual Assault Case

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says he will review a case involving an Air Force general who dismissed charges against a lieutenant colonel after he was convicted of sexual assault.

In a letter from Hagel released Monday by Sen. Barbara Boxer's office, the defense secretary says he has directed the Pentagon's general counsel and the Air Force secretary to examine Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin's decision to overturn the conviction against Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, a former inspector general at Aviano Air Base in Italy.

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