In this article a marine was convicted of rape then later walk without prison time. When a 23-year-old woman accused Nicholas Howard, an Anchorage recruiter for the United States Marine Corps, of sexually assaulting her in 2011, police believed the case rested largely on DNA evidence. Mr. Howard the  former gunnery sergeant once in charge of the Marine Corps recruiting efforts in Alaska was found guilty of first-degree sexual assault at a military trial on a Marine Corps installation in San Diego on May 3. He was later stripped of his military rank and privileges and dishonorably discharged, but he was not sentenced to any jail time. Military prosecutors had asked for five to seven years, said APD detective Brett Sarber, who testified at the trial with another Anchorage detective and a forensic nurse. My prediction after reading this article is that this will not be the frist time we will hear of things like this, because the marines have been known for accusation of rape by its soldiers