Former Marine sentenced in 2012 killing of fellow Marine

September 5, 2014
Mariah Timms
News Writer
Wash DC News

Michael Poth, 22, was sentenced to 11 years and three months for the fatal stabbing of Phillip Bushog, 24, in April, 2012. Poth, a former Marine, was charged with second-degree murder, but was acquitted by a jury of that charge and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. The death of Bushog, also a Marine, occurred April 21, 2012 near the Marine barracks where Poth was living when Poth got into a fight with Bushog and that man’s friend. Poth was sentenced by D.C. Superior Court Judge Russell F. Canan.