"Nevertheless, pre-trial confinement is in no way to be considered as confinement served in expiation for offenses of which an accused is later convicted.
We also question whether Bradley Manning's right to due process has been upheld, as he has now spent over 17 months in pre-trial confinement.
PFC Manning will be credited with 1,182 days of pre-trial confinement and 112 days of Article 13 credit for a total of 1,294 days of sentence credit.
PFC Manning will be credited with 1,182 days of pre-trial confinement and 112 days of Article 13 credit for a total of 1,294 days of sentence credit.
When trials are postponed, as this one was, because of the great number of those awaiting justice, fair allowances should be made for undue pre-trial confinement regardless of the inadequacy of a sentence.
Such evidence is relevant to the defense's contentions of illegal pre-trial confinement, which is sure to become an issue during sentencing in the capital case should the defendants be found guilty.
"I believe all of your efforts were significant in helping my legal defense team secure my release from pre-trial confinement last week as it was an enormous blessing for me to spend Thanksgiving with some of my family members".
It was unfounded allegations by a confidential government informant that Manning had leaked top-secret material (he had not) that was used as the basis of his pre-trial confinement in May 2010.
That prompted an obvious question: Q: Sir, you said that there could be criticism or that there could be interpretations that this — the pre-trial confinement was inappropriate, but that everything was followed by the letter of the law.
The soldier, who has admitted to having transferred state documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, was officially put into pre-trial confinement on 28 May 2010 when he was arrested at a forward operating base outside Baghdad.
At the hearing concerning his unlawful pre-trial confinement at Quantico, in November 2012, Manning's expressions of admiration and respect for his current command, and his friendly self-effacing charm, even disarmed the lead military prosecutor, Major Ashden Fein, who was smiling at Manning by the end of his cross-examination.
