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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, Crime, Law and Justice, Bradley Manning, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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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: Behavioral Conditions, Valium (drug), Mental Health, Defense, Murder
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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), Behavioral Conditions, Mental Health, Trials, 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: Punishment, Rebellions, Trials, Court Preliminary, Courts-Martial
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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, Gun Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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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: Behavioral Conditions, Punishment, Mental Health, Los Angeles Times, Trials
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Timeline: Deadly Mass Killings
A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed 26 people, including 20 children, on Friday. It is among the world's worst mass shootings. Here is a look at some others: The...Tags: McDonald's, University of Arizona, James Holmes, Colin Ferguson, Murder
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Generals' indiscretions have real consequences for U.S. policy
Gens. John Allen and David Petraeus have been stupid in their misuse of technology, for a flirtation in the case of the former and an affair in the case of the latter ("Pieces of a puzzle," Nov. 14). As philanderers, these two men are abject failures, and...Tags: Afghanistan, Government, Kabul (Afghanistan), National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Prosecutor urges court-martial trial, capital murder case against Bales
Los Angeles TimesA weeklong hearing in the case against U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales ended in a military courtroom Tuesday with defense attorneys declaring that “only one side of the story” has been heard. Bales faces charges on 16 counts of premeditated...Tags: Punishment, Courts-Martial
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Preliminary hearing ends in Afghan massacre case
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Army prosecutors on Tuesday asked an investigative officer to recommend a death penalty court-martial for a staff sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a predawn rampage, saying that Staff Sgt....
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Central Intelligence Agency, Trials, Murder, Court Preliminary
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Sgt. Bales: 'You Guys Are Going to Thank me,' Soldiers Testify
Los Angeles TimesTACOMA, Wash. -- Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales told his fellow soldiers they would be grateful to him in fighting season “come June” following a shooting rampage in which he is accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians. “He said, ‘You guys are going to thank...Tags: Culture, Litigation, Crime Victims, U.S. Marine Corps, Lawyers
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New Details in Trial of General Charged With Forcible Sodomy
![FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- An Army brigadier general stands accused of sexual misconduct with subordinates and a civilian, of threatening one woman’s career and her life, and of responding "I'm a general, I'll do whatever the [expletive] I want” when challenged about making demeaning comments about women, military prosecutors said Monday.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-09/72547564-26121645.jpg "FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- An Army brigadier general stands accused of sexual misconduct with subordinates and a civilian, of threatening one woman’s career and her life, and of responding \"I'm a general, I'll do whatever the [expletive] I want” when challenged about making demeaning comments about women, military prosecutors said Monday.")
Los Angeles TimesFORT BRAGG, N.C. -- An Army brigadier general stands accused of sexual misconduct with subordinates and a civilian, of threatening one woman’s career and her life, and of responding "I'm a general, I'll do whatever the [expletive] I want” when...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Trials, Court Preliminary, Sex Crimes, Courts-Martial
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