In this detail of a courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales (seated at front right) listens on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, during a preliminary hearing in a military courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. Sgt. Bales is accused of 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder for a pre-dawn attack on two villages in Kandahar province in Afghanistan in March 2012. At upper right is Col. Lee Deneke, the investigating officer, and seated at front left is Sgt. Bales' civilian attorney, Emma Scanlan. (AP Photo/Lois Silver)
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