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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bergdahl-court-martial-delayed-seven-months/article/2591541
may 17 2016 The U.S. Army announced Tuesday that accused deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's court-martial is delayed until Feb. 6, 2017.
This seven-month delay comes as the respective legal counsels filed their motions Tuesday morning at Fort Bragg, N.C. His court-martial had been scheduled for Aug. 8.
Army Judge Col. Jeffery Nance presided over the 35-minute hearing, discussing dates and specific legal motions with attorneys. Charges against Bergdahl include desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
Delaying until February opens the possibility that the court-martial would occur under Donald Trump as president. In October, Trump called Bergdahl "a no-good traitor, who should have been executed."
Of course, obuthole doesn't want to be embarrassed, again, before the elections.Obozo is CIC so he has to take the blame for this. What a monstrous fiasco his "rescue" of bergdahl has turned out to be. A white president would have been impeached long ago for this.
Bergdahl court-martial delayed seven months
may 17 2016 The U.S. Army announced Tuesday that accused deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's court-martial is delayed until Feb. 6, 2017.
This seven-month delay comes as the respective legal counsels filed their motions Tuesday morning at Fort Bragg, N.C. His court-martial had been scheduled for Aug. 8.
Army Judge Col. Jeffery Nance presided over the 35-minute hearing, discussing dates and specific legal motions with attorneys. Charges against Bergdahl include desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
Delaying until February opens the possibility that the court-martial would occur under Donald Trump as president. In October, Trump called Bergdahl "a no-good traitor, who should have been executed."
The hearing Thursday is likely to include a discussion of defense efforts to gain access to the correspondence of high-ranking military officials who were in positions of authority when Bergdahl's disappearance unfolded.
Defense lawyers argue in recent motions that the correspondence could show whether improper influence was exerted. Prosecutors say the efforts are speculative and unwarranted.
Bergdahl, who's from Hailey, Idaho, faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after walking off his post and winding up in enemy captivity for five years. The Obama administration was criticized for swapping Guantanamo Bay detainees for Bergdahl. His military trial is tentatively scheduled to start in early 2017.
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl due in court for pretrial hearing
Bergdahl's lawyers, Eugene R. Fidell and Lt. Col. Franklin D. Rosenblatt, requested Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance direct prosecutors to turn over a broad array of information that could benefit the soldier's defense, discredit potential witnesses or prosecutors have flagged as potential evidence. Additionally, the attorneys asked the judge to compel prosecutors to provide several specific documents, including Bergdahl's complete enlistment file and correspondence between senior government and military officials who have discussed Bergdahl. The requests were filed in recent days in a series of three motions expected to be discussedThursday before Nance when Bergdahl returns to a Fort Bragg, N.C. courtroom for a pre-trial hearing.
Fidell and Rosenblatt contend they have not been granted proper access to the informationthat they need to provide Bergdahl with the proper legal defense to which he is entitled. In their motions, the attorney's wrote Bergdahl's case has been subject to an extraordinary amount of influence from senior Army leadership and powerful lawmakers. "This case is among the most politically charged courts-martial in Army history," the soldier's lawyers wrote in a motion dated June 30. "Attuned to the public and political pressure, Army officials have treated this case differently from those of other similarly situated accused soldiers. As a result, the defense has a duty to investigate all actions that reflect or may constitute unlawful command influence."
Bowe Bergdahl in uniform
Such actions, the attorneys wrote, include extraordinary interest in the case from members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, "central control" of the case by senior Army leaders, moving the case to Forces Command, which had "no relationship to the accused," and the service's "willingness to bear any cost to prosecute the accused and to treat his case as a higher priority than any other criminal case in the Army." Bergdahl, 30, was captured and held for five years by Taliban-linked militants in Pakistan after leaving his post in eastern Afghanistan in June 2009. He faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. A conviction of the more serious misbehavior charge could send him to prison for the rest of his life. The court-martial is scheduled to begin Feb. 6 at Fort Bragg.
Bergdahl's case is complicated by a mass of classified and unclassified data that spans his initial entrance into the Army in 2006 through his controversial return in 2014. The prosecution holds more than 1.5 million pages of evidence, Army prosecutor Maj. Justin C. Oshana wrote in a June 30 motion. Prosecutors have provided 132,000 pages, including 89,000 classified pages -- to Bergdahl's attorneys and will turn over another 150,000 pages to them in the future, Oshana wrote. The documents that prosecutors have turned over and others that they are preparing to send, Oshana wrote, contain all the information they are legally required to provide defense attorneys. He added the defense has not provided sound reasoning for access to additional files, much of which contain "classified information about matters totally unrelated to this case" that Bergdahl's attorneys do not "need to know."
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This fails as a post hoc fallacy – there’s no ‘evidence’ that the start of the trial has anything to do with the General Election.Obozo is CIC so he has to take the blame for this. What a monstrous fiasco his "rescue" of bergdahl has turned out to be. A white president would have been impeached long ago for this.
Bergdahl court-martial delayed seven months
may 17 2016 The U.S. Army announced Tuesday that accused deserter Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's court-martial is delayed until Feb. 6, 2017.
This seven-month delay comes as the respective legal counsels filed their motions Tuesday morning at Fort Bragg, N.C. His court-martial had been scheduled for Aug. 8.
Army Judge Col. Jeffery Nance presided over the 35-minute hearing, discussing dates and specific legal motions with attorneys. Charges against Bergdahl include desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
Delaying until February opens the possibility that the court-martial would occur under Donald Trump as president. In October, Trump called Bergdahl "a no-good traitor, who should have been executed."
Only a pure civilian would utter such none sense..Bergdahl should be burned at the stake... An embarrassment to military folk countrywide. What a POS!!!Yeah, no proof but throw blame anywhey you can..It's all you have....
Only a stupid libtard would think otherwise.Only a pure civilian would utter such none sense..Bergdahl should be burned at the stake... An embarrassment to military folk countrywide. What a POS!!!Yeah, no proof but throw blame anywhey you can..It's all you have....
Sorry, I was in the guard for eight years, late 80'' early 90''. Nice tryOnly a pure civilian would utter such none sense..Bergdahl should be burned at the stake... An embarrassment to military folk countrywide. What a POS!!!Yeah, no proof but throw blame anywhey you can..It's all you have....
Well being a No-Go is about the same..Sorry, I was in the guard for eight years, late 80'' early 90''. Nice tryOnly a pure civilian would utter such none sense..Bergdahl should be burned at the stake... An embarrassment to military folk countrywide. What a POS!!!Yeah, no proof but throw blame anywhey you can..It's all you have....
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LolWell being a No-Go is about the same..Sorry, I was in the guard for eight years, late 80'' early 90''. Nice tryOnly a pure civilian would utter such none sense..Bergdahl should be burned at the stake... An embarrassment to military folk countrywide. What a POS!!!Yeah, no proof but throw blame anywhey you can..It's all you have....
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