Bergdahl fears jury trial, want judge only

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Raleigh, NC -- Army Private who was promoted to Sergeant while in captivity by the Taliban who he was looking to team up with, has decided to be tried by a judge rather than a military jury. The charges are that he endangered his comrades by walking off his post into the arms of the enemy.

Soldiers died trying to find his traitorous butt.

Bergdahl's lawyers told the court last week that he chose to be tried by a judge alone rather than a panel of officers [because he probably knows they'd convict him with the overwhelming evidence against him].

The hippy-dippy Bergdahl faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. His trial is scheduled for late October at Fort Bragg, (if Antifa doesn't try to have the name of the fort changed before then).

Misbehavior before the enemy carries a maximum sentence of life in prison but the likelihood of that sentence being rendered is about the same as Rosie O'Donnell having sex with President Trump on MSNBC.

Bergdahl's lawyers refused to comment on the traitor's decision and previously questioned whether he could get a fair trial by jury because of negative comments made by Trump on the campaign trail.

By 'fair trial' his lawyers mean get a 'not guilty' decision as would have likely been the case under the former POTUS who doesn't know the difference between a corpsman and a corpse man.

Earlier this year Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, the judge in the case, rejected a defense request to dismiss the case over Trump's public criticism of the alleged traitor and scum bucket.

Potential jurors had received a questionnaire including questions about President Trump, but defense lawyers were not allowed to ask them if they voted for Trump or 'Crooked Hillary'.

Rachel VanLandingham, a former USAF lawyer not involved in the case, said defense attorneys probably felt limited in how they could probe juror opinions. 

She believes Nance has thus far demonstrated his objectivity. "His pretrial rulings have shown that he's fair," she said.

But that will not matter any longer as there will be no jurors, only a judge who, hopefully, will come to the right decision.

Bergdahl walked away from his remote post and was captured by the Taliban in 2009. He claimed that he wanted to draw attention to what he saw as problems with his unit.

In 2014 he was freed in exchange for five high-ranking Taliban prisoners. Bergdahl was a private--the Taliban prisoners could be considered top officers in their organization. Former President Obama was rightly criticized by Republicans who said the trade jeopardized the nation's security but Obama apparently was not worried as he has armed security around the clock.

Bergdahl has been assigned desk duty at a Texas Army base pending the outcome of the case.

Bergdahl is considered to be a hero to the left as he, like they, clearly sees the country as a nation populated by evil imperialists and capitalists along with racists and Islamophobes.


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