Accused WikiLeaker Manning says he was punished before trial [View all]
At Fort Meade, lawyers will ask judge to dismiss all charges against him
November 25, 2012|By Matthew Hay Brown, The Baltimore Sun
... Dwight H. Sullivan, a former Marine Corps attorney who now teaches at George Washington University, said military law allows for the dismissal of charges against a suspect who is found to have been punished before trial — but such cases are rare.
"It's not something that one often sees," Sullivan said.
Generally, he said, a judge who finds that a suspect has been punished before trial may credit that punishment against any eventual sentence, so Manning has "great incentive" to get his allegations on the record now.
Should the charges against Manning stand, he is seeking a "10-to-1" credit — a credit of 10 days served for every actual day he has spent in pretrial confinement. ...
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