'The MARSOC 3 Are Free:' Drinking Convictions Dismissed Against Marine Raiders, Ending 6-Year Legal Saga

Drinking conviction against 2 members of ‘MARSOC 3’ overturned, ending yearslong case

The Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals has overturned a felony conviction against retired Marine Gunnery Sgts. Daniel Draher and Joshua Negron of the “MARSOC 3,” finding that a senior Marine lawyer had illegally interfered in the case. Negron, Draher, and Chief Petty Officer Eric Gilmet, a Navy corpsman — whom supporters refer to collectively as the “MARSOC 3” — were deployed to Iraq with the 3rd Marine Raider Battalion when they got in…

'The MARSOC 3 Are Free:' Drinking Convictions Dismissed Against Marine Raiders, Ending 6-Year Legal Saga

A military court of appeals on Friday dismissed the final convictions against two Marine Raiders embroiled in a yearslong legal saga stemming from the 2019 death of a Green Beret veteran working as a contractor in Iraq, ending a winding chronicle that rattled the military justice system.