{"id":35883,"date":"2013-05-29T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T23:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35883"},"modified":"2013-05-29T19:05:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T23:05:34","slug":"bales-to-plead-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35883","title":{"rendered":"Bales to plead guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you sent us links to the story that Richard Bales, that fellow who shot up a couple of Afghan villages a year ago March, will plead guilty to avoid the death penalty. Says the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/dpp\/news\/region_central_cincinnati\/norwood\/Norwood-native-Robert-Bales-to-plead-guilty-in-Afghan-civilian-massacre\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is scheduled to enter guilty pleas to charges of premeditated murder June 5 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, said lawyer John Henry Browne. A sentencing-phase trial set for September will determine whether he is sentenced to life in prison with or life without the possibility of parole. The judge and commanding general must approve a plea deal.<\/p>\n<p>Browne previously indicated Bales remembered little from the night of the massacre, but he said the soldier will give a full account of what happened before the judge decides whether to accept the plea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure, if someone tell the Afghans, instead of waiting for them to learn to read it for themselves, there will be riots in the streets if the deal is accepted. And, oh, we&#8217;re still waiting for them to take Nidal Hassan to trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of you sent us links to the story that Richard Bales, that fellow who shot &hellip; <a title=\"Bales to plead guilty\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35883\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bales to plead guilty<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}