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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The lawyer for an American  sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. prison for fighting with the  Taliban in Afghanistan appealed to President Bush to lessen his  sentence after a man in a similar case was freed.
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan: US soldier Charles Jenkins pleaded guilty on Wednesday at a court martial to desertion to North Korea in 1965 and of aiding the enemy, his lawyer said.
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In his quarter-century working in military courts, the attorney for Spc. Charles Graner Jr. can count on one hand the times he has allowed a client to testify. "My knee-jerk reaction is never to do that," said Guy Womack, an ex-Marine Corps lawyer.
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OSNABRUECK, Germany  - One of three British soldiers on trial for alleged mistreatment of Iraqi detainees was following orders to get tough with captured looters, his lawyer said.
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Three British soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi detainees are unfairly shouldering the blame while senior officers face lesser charges, a defense lawyer said in a landmark war crimes trial Monday.
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CAMP PENDLETON, California  - Lawyers for two U.S.   Marines accused of murdering an Iraqi civilian expressed   concern on Wednesday over their clients' ability to get a fair   trial and one criticized a pretrial hearing as a   "rubber-stamping process."
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The "just following orders" defense didn't work for the alleged leader of the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, but lawyers for at least one other soldier facing court-martial in the scandal still intend to use it.
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The Army reservist found guilty of being the ringleader of the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison told a jury considering his sentence that he had repeatedly complained about orders to treat detainees harshly.
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Defense attorneys for a military police soldier charged with detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq argued in court that their client was a pawn in a widespread policy of abusive military intelligence procedures, citing two extensive Pentagon  investigative reports released last week as evidence that the soldier was following orders.
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KABUL, Afghanistan Aug. 23, 2004 - A defense lawyer for one of three Americans accused of torturing a dozen Afghan prisoners in a private jail showed a video in court Monday of Afghanistan&#39;s former education
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A former US prison commander in Iraq is acquitted of aiding the enemy, but sentenced to two years for lesser charges.
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A laywer for a soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal claims that public positions taken by President Bush and military leaders have made it impossible for his client to get a fair trial by a military jury.
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For nearly four decades, he was a prisoner of the North Koreans. Then US Army deserter Charles Jenkins came to Japan this year, faced a court-martial and was sentenced to a month in jail.
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FORT MEADE, Md. -- Lawyers for the only Army officer charged with abusing Abu Ghraib detainees rested their case at his court-martial yesterday after defense witnesses testified that he was a helpful administrator but he was not the commanding officer.
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Foreign secretary raises doubts about fairness of US military tribunals for 9/11 accused
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Ending one of the Army&#39;s longest desertion cases, Charles Robert Jenkins was sentenced to 30 days in a military jail Wednesday for