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Bales to face sanity review this weekend in Afghan massacre case
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers and wounding six more in Afghanistan, will undergo a government sanity review this weekend to determine his mental state, his attorneys said. Bales...
Tags: Justice System, Military Justice, Courts-Martial, Kandahar Massacre (2012), Murder
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Marine pleads guilty to urinating on Afghan corpses
A Marine who urinated on the corpses of Taliban fighters in a video seen worldwide pleaded guilty Wednesday to several charges at a court-martial at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Staff Sgt. Edward W. Deptola admitted desecrating the remains and posing with the...Tags: Court Preliminary, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Punishment, Armed Forces, Crime, Law and Justice
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Bales defers entering plea in Afghan massacre case
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan, deferred entering a plea when he appeared Thursday morning for his arraignment at a hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle. A veteran of three tours in Iraq before...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Witnesses, Crime, Law and Justice, Afghanistan, Lawyers
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Afghan slaying: Defense depends on Sgt. Bales' mental health
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan, will undergo a sanity review before a mental health defense can be presented, a military judge decided Thursday. Col. Jeffery Nance ordered the review, a step in the ongoing...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health, Valium (drug), Crime, Law and Justice, Afghanistan
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Army seeks death for Sgt. Robert Bales in Afghan shooting rampage
SEATTLE -- The commanders at Joint Base Lewis-McChord have decided to refer the case against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for a general court-martial on charges that he murdered 16 civilians in a late-night shooting rampage outside a remote Army outpost...
Tags: Court Preliminary, Punishment, Armed Forces, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Milwaukee sheriff: Cut 'green projects' for a cop in every school
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. does not much fancy all this talk of gun control. His idea: Put an armed officer in every school and public place. Clarke is no stranger to mass shootings. His county contains the suburb of Oak Creek, where...
Tags: Israel, Personal Weapon Control, Wade Michael Page, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Source: Afghanistan slaying suspect first failed to mention children
World NowArmy Staff Sgt. Robert Bales initially asserted that he had shot several Afghan men outside a U.S. combat outpost in southern Afghanistan on March 11 and did not mention that a dozen women and children were among the dead, according to a senior U.S.... -
Afghan shooting: U.S. pays $50,000 per villager killed
World NowThe U.S. government has paid $50,000 in compensation for each of the Afghan villagers who were killed in a shooting rampage in which an American soldier faces murder charges, Afghan officials said Sunday. Families of the wounded received $11,000 per... -
U.S. boosts compensation for grisly Afghanistan killings
World NowThe U.S. paid families of Afghans killed earlier this month in a shooting spree allegedly committed by an American soldier substantially more than it usually does in such cases because of the horrific nature of the massacre, according to senior military... -
10 Things to Know for Friday
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. ONE TAX MAN IN, ANOTHER OUT Obama picks a senior White House budget official to run the IRS; a leader of the division under scrutiny announces...Tags: Truman Capote, Scarlett Johansson, American Airlines, Inc., Barack Obama, White House
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Hearing in Afghanistan killings case focuses on what might happen if soldier is convicted
Associated PressJOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan villagers during a pre-dawn rampage last year appeared in a military courtroom Tuesday for a hearing that focused largely on what might happen if he's convicted,...Tags: Court Preliminary, Military Justice, Football, Witnesses, Afghanistan
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Bales defense must decide strategy
The News TribuneAttorneys for the Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians last spring are five weeks from a deadline for declaring whether they intend to use a mental health defense at his court-martial. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales faces...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatry, Witnesses, Health, Prosecution
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