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Will Bradley Manning plead guilty to the aiding the enemy charge?

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Will Bradley Manning plead guilty to the aiding the enemy charge?

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Settled on 02/28/2013 20:32 Settled by Super Userkruijs
Winning option:No The Army private charged with the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history pleaded guilty to 10 charges Thursday, saying he acted to start a debate over a U.S. foreign policy obsessed with “killing and capturing people.”

In a plea with prosecutors, he will serve 20 years for pleading guilty to the 10 lesser charges covering misuse of classified information. He pleaded not guilty to more serious charges of espionage and aiding the enemy, which could send him to prison for life. He is scheduled to stand trial on 12 remaining charges in June.

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An Army private declined to enter a plea Thursday to charges he engineered the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.

Pfc. Bradley Manning also deferred a choice of whether to be tried by a military jury or judge alone.

Military judge Col. Denise Lind presided over the 50-minute hearing at Fort Meade near Baltimore. She didn't set a trial date but scheduled another court session for March 15-16.

Defense attorney David Coombs proposed a trial date sometime in April. He said the government's proposed calendar could push the start of the trial to Aug. 3, a date that Coombs said could jeopardize his client's right to a speedy trial.

Manning has been in pretrial confinement since May 2010. He faces 22 counts, including aiding the enemy. That charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. The others carry a combined maximum of more than 150 years.

The 24-year-old native of Crescent, Okla., allegedly gave the anti-secrecy website more than 700,000 documents and video clips.

Defense lawyers say Manning was emotionally troubled and shouldn't have had access to classified material nor have been sent to Iraq for a tour of duty.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57383882/bradley-manning-arraigned-but-enters-no-plea/

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   Super Userkruijs

The trial of an Army private charged with sending U.S. secrets to the website WikiLeaks is being pushed back from February to March.

Military judge Col. Denise Lind announced the change Sunday at a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade for Pfc. Bradley Manning.

Manning's trial was set to begin Feb. 4. But Lind says pretrial proceedings will push the start date back to either March 6 or March 18.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pfc-mannings-trial-delayed-wikileaks-case-17861748

   Super Userkruijs

Earlier this month Coombs wrote on his blog that Manning was willing to plead guilty to some lesser offenses. On Thursday the military judge in the case said eight lesser charges could be reviewed by Manning's defense attorneys for a potential plea deal, but a response likely won't be determined until December.

The most serious charge Manning now faces, aiding the enemy, could bring a penalty of life in prison should he be found guilty.

Manning appeared confident and animated at a pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade in Maryland as he described the mental breakdowns and extreme depression he suffered during his first year in detention, from cells in Iraq and Kuwait to the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. Within weeks of his arrest, Manning said, he became convinced he was going to die in custody.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/accused-wikileaker-bradley-mannings-speaks-publicly-time/story?id=17841436

   Super Userkruijs

A military judge presiding over the court martial of the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has set the date for what is likely to be the biggest whistleblower trial in US history.

Judge Denise Lind set aside six weeks for the trial of the US soldier, between 4 February and 15 March. Manning faces 22 counts relating to charges that he leaked hundreds of thousands of secret US state documents, including war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq and diplomatic cables, to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/30/bradley-manning-trial-date-set?newsfeed=true

   Super Userkruijs

A military judge rejected Friday dropping a slew of charges against WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning and said his trial would likely be delayed by two months until November.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iYt2ar0EgF7Uy8dhV843n66dsY3w

   Super Userkruijs

Manning deferred pleading guilty or not guilty to the charges until a later date. He can enter a plea any time before the start of the trial.

A trial start date has not been set. The prosecution asked for the trial to begin August 3, but the defense would like the trial to begin no later than June.

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/23/bradley-manning-charged/?hpt=hp_t3

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