The military's highest appeals court has ruled that federal prosecutors did not unfairly sway a panel of officers to harshly sentence Andrew Witt, a senior airman convicted of a double homicide in 2005. Witt is serving a life sentence in prison without parole in connection with the deaths of Senior Airman Andrew Schliepsiek and his wife, Jamie, and the attempted murder of then-Senior Airman Jason King, at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, in 2004. His appeal aimed to give him hope of someday walking out of prison a free man, The avionics technician confessed to killing the pair, and to stabbing King, after Andrew confronted Witt on the phone about his attempt to kiss Jamie. They also threatened to report to Witt's superiors a separate alleged affair with an officer's wife, according to legal documents.
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