ARMY SERGEANT GUILTY IN FEMALE OFFICER'S RAPE, MURDER.(MAIN)

Byline: Associated Press

FORT BRAGG, N.C. Second Lt. Lisa Bryant, fresh from Princeton with an honors degree, saw the Army as a step along the way to a bright future. That future was shattered by a former honor guard in a military dormitory last summer.

Sgt. 1st Class Ervin Graves, 34, an enlistee who had worked as an honor guard in the White House and Arlington National Cemetery, was convicted Thursday of trying to rape the young woman, then killing her when she tried to escape.

Bryant, 21, had been out of Princeton for just a month when she was slain. She was a newly commissioned second lieutenant, paying back a ROTC scholarship. She had …