Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was arraigned in his controversial military desertion case here on Tuesday, deferring his decision on whether he allows a jury of soldiers or a judge to determine his fate next year in a court-martial trial.
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During his brief arraignment hearing at Fort Bragg in North Carolina on Tuesday, Bergdahl deferred offering a plea in what was his first court appearance pertaining to charges that could carry a life sentence in prison. His hair was close-cropped and he was wearing his army dress uniform of dark blue jacket and trousers.
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He didn’t speak to reporters waiting in the rain outside the courthouse on Fort Bragg. His next hearing is scheduled for January 12, 2016.
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In ordering the court-martial, Army General Robert Abrams did not follow the recommendation of a preliminary hearing officer who, according to Bergdahl’s lawyer, called for him to face a proceeding that could impose a potential maximum penalty of a year in confinement. “Let’s keep our options open, ‘” he said.
In this undated image provided by the U.S. Army, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl poses in front of an American flag.
Legal databases and media accounts turn up only a few misbehaviour cases since 2001, when fighting began in Afghanistan, followed by Iraq less than two years later.
He said Bergdahl was unrealistically idealistic, but not a Taliban sympathiser.
Then, in May 2014 President Obama unexpectedly announced Bergdahl had been released as part of a high-stakes prisoner exchange with the Taliban.
Bergdahl hasn’t talked publicly about what happened, but spoke extensively with screenwriter Mark Boal, who shared 25 hours of recorded interviews with Sarah Koenig for her podcast, “Serial”. I could be what it is that every… you know, all those guys out there who go to the movies and watch those movies, they all want to be that. “I do not believe there is a jail sentence at the end of this process”, said Major General Kenneth Dahl. “Doing what I did was me saying I am like Jason Bourne”.
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The case was also considered inherently hard to prosecute, partly because of the still murky nature of Bergdahl’s intentions and state of mind in leaving in his base in Afghanistan, and because of the years between the alleged crimes and an actual court martial.
