Kandahar massacre suspect Staff Sgt. Robert Bales today declined to enter a plea at an arraignment today where he faced charges of murdering 16 Afghan civilians and wounding six more during his deployment with a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade.
Kandahar massacre suspect Staff Sgt. Robert Bales today declined to enter a plea at an arraignment today where he faced charges of murdering 16 Afghan civilians and wounding six more during his deployment with a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade.
His attorneys sparred over when his court-martial should take place, and when he would submit to a sanity board that could shape his defense.
A U.S. soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians is expected to undergo a court-ordered review of his sanity beginning this weekend, after the military judge overseeing the case agreed that the results would not automatically be shared with prosecutors, his lawyers said Wednesday.
A U.S. soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians is expected to undergo a court-ordered review of his sanity beginning this weekend, after the military judge overseeing the case agreed that the results would not automatically be shared with prosecutors, his lawyers said Wednesday.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales could go to trial this year for allegedly murdering 16 Afghan civilians, if Army prosecutors get their way. Or his court martial could be delayed until 2014 or later, if defense attorneys are successful.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales today is expected to confess to murdering 16 Afghan civilians during his deployment to Kandahar Province last year with a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade in the hopes of securing a plea agreement that would spare him the death penalty.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales this morning pleaded guilty to murdering 16 Afghan villagers and wounding six more during a nighttime rampage outside of his combat outpost in Kandahar Province last year.
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