Will the Marines let Lt. Col. Scheller off with a slap on the wrist?

On Friday, a military judge at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina gave Scheller a slap on the wrist. He issued a reprimand to go in Scheller’s permanent file and ordered that his pay be docked by $5,000. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors had asked for the judge to dock $30,000 in pay. Judge Glen Hines, a Marine colonel, said he considered making Scheller forfeit $10,000 but decided to go with half that amount because of nine days he spent in pretrial confinement, along with his “outstanding record before this.”

Source: WP