Military judge cuts potential sentence for WikiLeaks soldier
Source: Reuters
By Tom Ramstack
FORT MEADE, Maryland
Tue Aug 6, 2013 2:02pm EDT
A U.S. military judge reduced potential prison time for Private First Class Bradley Manning to 90 years from 136 years on Tuesday by ruling that some sentences for leaking secret files to WikiLeaks should be merged.
Court-martial Judge Colonel Denise Lind ... ruled that some counts resulted from the same offenses and should be merged to avoid "an unreasonable multiplication of charges" ...
For most of the espionage charges resulting from the transmissions, "there is no evidence of prosecutorial overreaching," Lind said ...
The sentencing phase began last week and is expected to last at least until Friday ...
The judge also ruled she would not allow the prosecution's "aggravation evidence" to be considered in sentencing unless it could be shown to be "a direct and immediate result" of information he gave to WikiLeaks ...
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/06/us-usa-wikileaks-manning-idUSBRE9750RY20130806
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)She charge sheet change after the defense had rested.
She wouldn't allow Manning to argue whistleblower motive.
Give me a break.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)loudsue
(14,087 posts)his punishment, and moved so the cheerleaders of an unjust system could post? That's pretty strange, no?
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)Host rules are that the first thread posted becomes the de facto thread.