Bradley Manning Attorney Wants to Depose Rejected Witnesses

The defense team for WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning is seeking to depose several witnesses that the court refused to allow at a pretrial hearing last month in an apparent effort to undermine the government’s charges that Manning leaked damaging classified information. Attorney David E. Coombs is seeking to depose six witnesses (.pdf) who were involved in determining the classification level of materials that Manning is alleged to have leaked to WikiLeaks. Coombs writes in his request to the Army Court that the witnesses were “essential” to the proceeding and should have been allowed to testify at Manning’s pretrial hearing. Only 12 of some 48 witnesses that the defense requested appeared at the hearing after the court rejected most of the defense witnesses on grounds that they would present irrelevant testimony or testimony that was redundant to statements that government witnesses were expected to make

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Bradley Manning Attorney Wants to Depose Rejected Witnesses

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