Defense attorneys for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl of Idaho have won access to thousands of classified documents.
Prosecutors were hoping a judge would deny Bergdahl’s attorneys access to the documents, but when a judge ruled they could see them, prosecutors appealed that.
The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals has now denied that appeal.
Eugene Fidell, Bergdahl’s attorney, told 670 KBOI how he felt after the ruling, “well, we’re gratified because we thought we had the better argument. The case was argued by an army captain and he did a terrific job. The judges were very attentive.”
Bergdahl is charged with misbehavior before the enemy and desertion after he allegedly walked away from his post in Afghanistan and was captured by the Taliban.
Fidell says they are hoping to get the 300,000 pages of documents soon, so they can get started, “we don’t really know yet what’s in this mass of documents. We’ve been told that they are some 300,000 pages of paper and we do of course have to go through them. I don’t really know if we’re looking for a needle in a haystack or whether there’s real gold in them there hills, we’ll find out.”
