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lly JOSEPH OWEN IIcidt* 1 berg bun*uuMANNHEIM, Germany ~ A German state court lias issued a mneinonth suspended sentence to an unemployed former U.S. soldier convicted of a rape he committed three years ago, while on active duty.Gerald Green was found guilty Tuesday of raping a German woman from I'rankenlfial shortly after midnight on April 22, WO, in a paiking lot in Mannheim.(ireen, of Texarkana, Texas, was serving then with I hi Cu, 3rd Hn, 77th Anml Kegf, sir Mannheim. He tcMifieu during ihc trial that the Army had been preparing to prosecute him tor the rape, hut it granted him a discharge, under other than honorable conditions, and he returned to the Lfjnled States, He believed the Chapter 1(1 discharge luul put the matter to rest, lie said.However, German authorities initialed prosecutionof him after he returned to the area in late 1W0 to many Jus Gennau girlfriend.* lie state court judge told him Monday his agreement to the discharge was a tacit admission of guilt.Gieen luM the comi that I n* flic vii fim ttml Isc.-mPfriends. He said he saw her on the evening of April ^1 at a Mannheim night club, and a few hours later shedrove him to a hospital parking lot. He acknowledgedthat they had sex in her car there, and. that she had objected. Hut he said that she objected in the midst of the act, and that they had had previous sexual encounters.It wasn't that kind of 'no.' I do know the difference,” Green told the court.The judge told Green that some details in his testimony conflicted with what he told military police a few days after the rape occurred. Green responded that hist un cut memory of what happened was less certain than in WO when he spoke to police. ^The court closed the victim's testimony to the public citing the need to protect her child's privacy,(ierman law separates rape convictions into two categories of seriousness, according to court spokesman I ran/.-Josef Hen/. Green's sentence fails within th-range mandated for the Jess serious offense sixmonths to five years.'1 he prosecution had asked for a nuclear prisont i • t f if f i h - i t J* t. ' i t/ I
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Darmstadt, Hesse, DE
Sat, Jun 12, 1993
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