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.
"My gut is, they do not have a lot of cases," 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 to prepare 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 this is the case, but we can say that," Browne said Friday.
Browne said his investigators had spoken to U.s. soldiers in Afghanistan, but it was could not be any witnesses.
"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.
Browne said it was too early to say whether or not there is a case to invoke the post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD or other psychological illness or problems with the Bale has been caused by the defence.
The next event is the Bales, which is running in the military detention centre is in 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.
(Reports Of The Bill Rigby; Editing by Todd Eastham and Paul Simao)
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