{"id":69437,"date":"2016-12-18T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=69437"},"modified":"2016-12-17T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T22:01:07","slug":"judge-wont-allow-evidence-of-wounded-in-bergdahl-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=69437","title":{"rendered":"Judge won’t allow evidence of wounded in Bergdahl trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bergdahl<\/a><\/p>\n

The Army Times <\/a>reports that Army Colonel Jeffery Nance, the judge in the Bowe Bergdahl case has forbidden prosecutors from using the fact that at least two members of the units who searched for Private Walkabout were wounded for fear of Bergdahl being convicted of that rather than the desertion and misbehavior before the enemy with which he is charged.<\/p>\n

Nance wrote that “the accused is not charged with causing anyone’s injury or death. He is charged with endangering the command. While there are similarities in those consequences, they are distinct.” <\/p>\n

His ruling described his concern that jurors would be unfairly prejudiced by the injuries. <\/p>\n

“The accused is not to be convicted because, while searching for him, his comrades were horrifically injured. Even (perhaps especially) hardened combat veterans of many deployments who might sit on this panel would be hard pressed not to be affected by the horrific injuries to SFC Allen, in particular,” he wrote. “Since the danger can be avoided, I deem it should be.” <\/p>\n

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[D]efense attorney Army Maj. Oren Gleich said many factors \u2014 some having little or nothing to do with Bergdahl \u2014 coalesced in the mission that left the men wounded. The defense has presented evidence that the mission was shoddily planned, even by the standards of the missing-soldier alert Bergdahl caused.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess evidence is strong enough to convict him for desertion, so fine, let him stand trial for that. But I fully expect that the wounded and disabled folks who searched for him to come up during the sentencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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