He said he had indicted Mr. Lewis primarily because of the pretrial statements made by Mr. Fassett.
During cross-examination, Mr. Fitzgerald asked Mr. Clark about his pretrial statements that "there will not be a real effort to choose a jury free of preconceptions and prejudice".
Conklin says that around this same time prosecutor Talley was given a disk containing Conklin's entire investigative materials in the White matter, including an interview he conducted with White, all audio recordings and transcripts of the eyewitness' pretrial statements.
While Mr. Conway acknowledged in a pretrial deposition that his statement to the analysts had been "absolutely not true" and "promotional," at the trial last Wednesday he backtracked, testifying that he had simply been unclear, not false.
Manning explained his actions and his motivation in a detailed statement in his pretrial proceedings.
In his statements, made during pretrial investigations, he said he was working on orders from the top Khmer Rouge leadership, an assertion that appeared to implicate four other defendants who are awaiting trial.
Colonel Lind asked Private Manning — who during the pretrial phase had read a lengthy statement confessing to most of the leaking with which he had been charged and explaining his motivations — to verify that he had chosen not to testify in his defense.
Sergeant Akbar will be sent to Mannheim, Germany, to be held for pretrial investigation, the Army said in a statement from Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, now based in Kuwait.
A jury of six people will be selected following the pretrial hearing, which centres on whether certain statements McMillan made after her arrest can be used against her.
Mr. Weinberg said parts of Mr. Valme's statement contradicted details he gave in pretrial meetings.
