Afghan Rampage Suspect to Meet With Defense Lawyer Today
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John Henry Browne, lawyer for the U.S. soldier suspected in the shooting deaths of 16 Afghan civilians, has a history of defending clients in multiple-homicide cases, including serial killer Ted Bundy and mass murderer Benjamin Ng.
Today, he is to meet with Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Bales, who hasn’t been charged with a crime, is suspected of going on a rampage three months into his first tour of duty in Afghanistan after three deployments to Iraq. The Army said in a memo to Congress that the soldier hiked to two villages close to his base near Kandahar city on March 11 to commit the killings.