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(45,790 posts) Tue Jan 8, 2013, 05:12 PM Jan 2013

Breaking: Judge Reduces Possible Sentence for Manning (Unlawful Pretrial Punishment) [View all]

Source: Associated Press

@BreakingNews: Judge reduces possible sentence for Bradley Manning, Army private accused of sending secret information to WikiLeaks - @AP

@kgosztola: Military court grants Bradley Manning 112 days sentencing credit for unlawful pretrial punishment

JUDGE REDUCES POSSIBLE SENTENCE IN WIKILEAKS CASE

By DAVID DISHNEAU
— Jan. 8 4:14 PM EST

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A military judge has reduced the potential sentence for an Army private accused of sending reams of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website.

Col. Denise Lind ruled Tuesday during a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade for Pfc. Bradley Manning.

Lind found that Manning suffered illegal pretrial punishment during nine months in a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va. She awarded a total of 112 days off any prison sentence Manning gets if he is convicted. Defense attorneys had sought to have the charges against him dismissed.

Manning was confined to a windowless cell 23 hours a day, sometimes with no clothing. Brig officials say it was to keep him from hurting himself or others.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gis-hearing-wikileaks-case-focuses-motive

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How generous Kelvin Mace Jan 2013 #1

Not a single charge dismissed then? Wow...this is a prosecution victory, then. nt msanthrope Jan 2013 #2

That's what you took away from this? Hissyspit Jan 2013 #33

Yes. 22 charges untouched, including the most serious, with an easily-proved intent msanthrope Jan 2013 #34

Not nearly enough to serve as a deterrent to others who might do the same. JDPriestly Jan 2013 #3

What a preposterous JOKE! Plucketeer Jan 2013 #4

... Lind rejected a defense contention that brig commanders were influenced by higher-ranking Marine struggle4progress Jan 2013 #49

Did he work at Fort Meade at NSA? Just wondering. There was a book written about that southernyankeebelle Jan 2013 #5

Then I wonder how Romney passed his security clearance testing. Surely when they asked him to draw a okaawhatever Jan 2013 #7

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL southernyankeebelle Jan 2013 #13

Was it by any chance Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #22

Something like that. Why would they ask such a personal question like that. Funny southernyankeebelle Jan 2013 #26

That was a question on the old version of the MMPI. Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #28

Like I said I was 19yrs old. Now am 65 this Friday. So it was a very long time ago. southernyankeebelle Jan 2013 #29

I'm 68. They gave the test to every entering freshman at Madison Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #31

Well I read it in my younger days. I don't know if you could even get it today. But it was southernyankeebelle Jan 2013 #32

Manning has won in the eyes of the world The Judge agreed he was lovuian Jan 2013 #6

Not a single charge was thrown. nt msanthrope Jan 2013 #20

Judge did not rule Manning was tortured: judged ruled his confinement was "more rigorous struggle4progress Jan 2013 #44

Well, that's an interesting new euphemism for torture. bemildred Jan 2013 #8

Are they ever? Well, unless someone needs to make a showing of pretending to be against torture Solly Mack Jan 2013 #16

It's getting worse than that Dragonfli Jan 2013 #21

... �There was no intent to punish the accused...The intent was to make sure the accused was safe, struggle4progress Jan 2013 #42

Oh heck no, of course not, only thinking of what was best for him. nt bemildred Jan 2013 #45

That doesn't seem to be exactly what Lind concluded struggle4progress Jan 2013 #50

I read it. bemildred Jan 2013 #51

This message was self-deleted by its author guyton Jan 2013 #9

He's already discussing pleading to some of the charges. He's not getting acquitted, and he msanthrope Jan 2013 #35

What a cruel joke. He gets credit for the 112 days he's been tortured. nm rhett o rick Jan 2013 #10

112 days for being water boarded??? railsback Jan 2013 #11

He wasn't waterboarded. nt msanthrope Jan 2013 #18

But I was under the impression that Manning has been tortured. railsback Jan 2013 #24

Why, no. nt msanthrope Jan 2013 #25

Well, in that case railsback Jan 2013 #27

Seems about right to me---he probably should have been put in med sec. msanthrope Jan 2013 #30

"Military justice" -- oxymoron of the century n/t markpkessinger Jan 2013 #12

112 days given back since they tortured him.. ReRe Jan 2013 #14

Judge did not rule Manning was tortured: judged ruled his confinement was "more rigorous struggle4progress Jan 2013 #39

Oh, the snark I'll refrain from....for now. Solly Mack Jan 2013 #15

So what is it, 1 year per document? Final sentence, 250,000 years...less 112 days of course. 24601 Jan 2013 #17

Wow, don't outdo yourself, Lind! Dont call me Shirley Jan 2013 #19

112 days off 23 consecutive life sentences Canuckistanian Jan 2013 #23

... Lind said Manning�s treatment at Quantico was �more rigorous than necessary� and struggle4progress Jan 2013 #36

... Nonetheless, she said, �dismissal of charges is not appropriate� and would be fitting only struggle4progress Jan 2013 #38

Judge Says Harsh Detention Is Not Cause to Drop Charges in WikiLeaks Case struggle4progress Jan 2013 #37

Watch for another delay of trial from the defense....I suspect a plea is in the msanthrope Jan 2013 #40

Judge delays Army GI's trial in WikiLeaks to June struggle4progress Jan 2013 #46

I can call it, can't I? And there are certain posters on this board who doubt if I am an attorney msanthrope Jan 2013 #52

... Manning's lawyer, David Coombs, on Wednesday introduced a revised proposal under which the young struggle4progress Jan 2013 #47

... Manning seeks to prove at trial that he used his experience to conclude that the documents were struggle4progress Jan 2013 #48

Bradley Manning granted 112-day reduction in possible sentence struggle4progress Jan 2013 #41

Your modification of the AP headline is misleading: the judge did not find struggle4progress Jan 2013 #43

but the judge says he was excessively strong armed, and mistreated it sounds like to me but the best Divine Discontent Jan 2013 #53