Soldier’s guilty plea to Iraqi prisoner abuse thrown out

TA Badger, Fort Hood

Colonel James Pohl entered a plea of not guilty for England to a charge of conspiring with Private Charles Graner to maltreat detainees at the Baghdad-area prison.

The mistrial for the 22-year-old reservist, who appeared in some of the most notorious photographs from the 2003 abuse scandal, kicks the case back to the military equivalent of a grand jury proceeding.