Lawyer says deserter believes sentence was fair
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Tokyo -- Former US Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins believes his conviction and sentence of 30 days in jail for desertion after nearly 40 years in North Korea is &quot;very fair,&quot; his defense attorney told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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A U.S. army sergeant accused of deserting  to North Korea in 1965 and now in hospital in Japan has held a  meeting with a U.S. military lawyer which could lead to a plea  bargain, Japanese media said Monday.
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The lawyer of one of the U.S. Army reservists accused of abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison said Tuesday that military prosecutors have agreed to drop some of their charges after the soldier agreed to plead guilty to the rest.
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Charles Jenkins, a US military serviceman, received a minor sentence Wednesday to 30 days in confinement and dishonorable discharge by a US court-martial for his desertion in 1960s, the US Army said.
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The attorney for a soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal said Thursday the government is trying to intimidate defense lawyers and witnesses by making them sign
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A British army colonel accused of failing to stop soldiers from abusing Iraqi detainees said in a letter that rough conditions in southern Iraq sometimes "got the better of otherwise professional troops," prosecutors said Friday in a court-martial proceeding.
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A U.S. soldier was sentenced to a 25-year term Saturday after a court martial convicted him in the death of an Iraqi National Guard member in May, the military said.
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A U.S. Army reservist accused of  abusing Iraqi prisoners has agreed to plead guilty to reduced  charges as part of a deal with military prosecutors, his  attorney said on Thursday.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - Charles Graner, the accused  ringleader of the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal, restated a not  guilty plea at his court-martial on Friday and his lawyer  insisted the U.S. soldier was only following orders and his  superiors were unlikely to face justice.
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Former "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla cannot get a fair trial on terrorism charges because years of secret interrogation damaged his brain, his lawyer told a U.S. judge on Wednesday, while prosecutors insisted that was untrue.
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A U.S. lawyer accused of helping a  radical Muslim cleric smuggle terrorist messages out of prison  wept in court on Wednesday after being asked whether she would  repeat her actions.
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A U.S. Army medic who refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition to the war was convicted of desertion at his court martial Tuesday
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WUERZBURG, Germany  - A U.S. Army medic who fled his base and refused to return to Iraq with his unit was found guilty of desertion at a court-martial on Tuesday and faces up to seven years in prison.
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A lawyer accused of aiding terrorism through her defense of a militant Muslim cleric on Tuesday denied charges that she lied to the US government by signing a promise
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A recently fired U.S. attorney based in Seattle said yesterday that he was told of no performance problems when he was asked to resign, and he called critical remarks by a top Justice Department official "unfair" and inaccurate.
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The lawyer of an Islamist militant   sentenced to hang in Pakistan for his role in the murder of   U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl said on Tuesday he would use   President Pervez Musharraf's memoir to support an appeal.
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Foreign secretary raises doubts about fairness of US military tribunals for 9/11 accused