John Henry Browne, staff sergeant Robert bales, a lawyer, said the US forces in Afghanistan, is prevented from attending, his team to interview any person crossing the injured civilians in a hospital, Kandahar and other potential witnesses in a scatter chart, find it difficult to keep track of them.
"When prosecutors do not cooperate, is because they are worried about the strength of their case," Browne said at a press conference, his downtown Seattle Office Friday.
Bales was formally charged with the murder last week of eight adults and nine children in the pre-dawn Shooting rampage in southern Afghanistan on March 11 which undermines further the relations of the United States in the Afghan war strained already this decade.
He may prove to be the death penalty if convicted.
No date has been set for the proceedings, but the US military prosecutors are putting together their case, even though Browne is preparing his defence.
Browne said he has a team of researchers in Afghanistan now, but they are a little cooperation in the military prosecutors received, which filed the charges.
"We are facing almost the complete information blackout by the Government that a devastating effect on our ability to investigate the charges against our priorities," he said in the statement released in the past.
A reliable account of the events of the night of The massacre is not yet born. The last report indicated the Afghan villagers doubt Bales acted alone. Other reports Suggest Bales left his base twice during the night.
"I do not think so, but we do not know for sure at this stage," Browne said Friday.
Browne said his investigators had spoken to U.s. soldiers in Afghanistan, but it was could not be any witnesses.
BLOCKED
"When we tried to interview shall be treated in the Kandahar hospital, we were blocked and told to coordinate the prosecution, a group of injured civilians," Browne said in the statement.
"Next to the charge, the group interviewed civilians injured. We found shortly after the injured civilians to the charge, was released from the hospital, interviews with civilians and had them contact information. " This means, if any, of witnesses in the scatter chart, and can prove to be unreachable, Browne said.
Prosecutors had not shared his with his investigations of their findings and share control of the camera, the blimp in the base, which the military says displays a return to the camp after an alleged Shooting Bales photos taken, she said.
The next event is the Bales which are organised in the military detention Center-at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, to submit to a mental health assessment of army doctors independent of the prosecution and the defence, in order to determine if he is fit to stand trial, is called "the sanity of the Board" in the armed forces.
That could take several months, Browne said.
The military judicial system requires that from occurring after the end of the preliminary hearing, which is known as the "article" at the hearing, whether or not strong enough in the case of the Court of Justice, which was able to do so.
Browne said it was too early to say whether the post-traumatic stress disorder in the property of his defense. "I do not know whether it is at all," said Browne.
"We have to find the first thing is to determine whether the Government has, in the case of. Until you have convinced the Government is, in any case, we will not start, what we in the security of the speculating. "
(Reports Of The Bill Rigby; Editing by Todd Eastham and Paul Simao)
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