Sergeant First Class Layne Morris (born 1962) is a retired soldier in an American Special Forces unit. Sergeant Morris was wounded and blinded in one eye during a fire-fight on July 27, 2002, that left Sergeant 1st Class Christopher J. Speer dead. "A piece of the hand grenade shrapnel cut the optic nerve, So I'm blind in one eye." — Sgt. Layne Morris to 60 Minutes Canadian youth Omar Khadr, then fifteen and held from 2002 until 2012, by the United States, pled guilty for Speer's death. Mr Khadr's lawyers allege he was tortured into confessing.