Robert Bales

Bales to face sanity review this weekend in Afghan massacre case

2013-03-13 19:10:00

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers and wounding six more in Afghanistan, will undergo a government sanity review this weekend to determine his mental state, his attorneys said. Bales...

Marine pleads guilty to urinating on Afghan corpses

2013-01-16 17:12:00

A Marine who urinated on the corpses of Taliban fighters in a video seen worldwide pleaded guilty Wednesday to several charges at a court-martial at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Staff Sgt. Edward W. Deptola admitted desecrating the remains and posing with the...

Bales defers entering plea in Afghan massacre case

2013-01-17 16:05:00

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan, deferred entering a plea when he appeared Thursday morning for his arraignment at a hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle. A veteran of three tours in Iraq before...

Afghan slaying: Defense depends on Sgt. Bales' mental health

2013-01-17 16:32:00

Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan, will undergo a sanity review before a mental health defense can be presented, a military judge decided Thursday. Col. Jeffery Nance ordered the review, a step in the ongoing...

Army seeks death for Sgt. Robert Bales in Afghan shooting rampage

2012-12-19 12:18:00

SEATTLE -- The commanders at Joint Base Lewis-McChord have decided to refer the case against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for a general court-martial on charges that he murdered 16 civilians in a late-night shooting rampage outside a remote Army outpost...

Milwaukee sheriff: Cut 'green projects' for a cop in every school

2012-12-20 12:50:00

Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. does not much fancy all this talk of gun control. His idea: Put an armed officer in every school and public place. Clarke is no stranger to mass shootings. His county contains the suburb of Oak Creek, where...

Source: Afghanistan slaying suspect first failed to mention children

2012-03-20 16:40:08

Afghan shooting: U.S. pays $50,000 per villager killed

2012-03-25 16:40:24

U.S. boosts compensation for grisly Afghanistan killings

2012-03-26 16:40:57

10 Things to Know for Friday

2013-05-16 17:20:25

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday: 1. ONE TAX MAN IN, ANOTHER OUT Obama picks a senior White House budget official to run the IRS; a leader of the division under scrutiny announces...

Hearing in Afghanistan killings case focuses on what might happen if soldier is convicted

2013-04-23 16:21:06

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan villagers during a pre-dawn rampage last year appeared in a military courtroom Tuesday for a hearing that focused largely on what might happen if he's convicted,...

Bales defense must decide strategy

2013-04-24 03:34:02

Attorneys for the Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier accused of murdering 16 Afghan civilians last spring are five weeks from a deadline for declaring whether they intend to use a mental health defense at his court-martial. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales faces...

John Henry Browne, a civilian attorney for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, talks to reporters after Bales' arraignment at Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington state.

2013-01-17 00:00:00

In this courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, second from left, sits next to Emma Scanlan, left, one of his civilian attorneys.

2012-11-13 00:00:00

In this courtroom sketch, Capt. Daniel Fields, right, a prosecution witness in the military preliminary hearing of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, testifies in a military courtroom.

2012-11-08 15:22:12