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  Abu Ghraib judge rejects guilty plea
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News DateWednesday, May 4, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionFORT HOOD, Texas (CNN) -- A military judge on Wednesday threw out the guilty plea for Army Pfc. Lynndie England, a public symbol of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq.

Judge Col. James Pohl entered a not guilty lea for England after suspending the proceedings Wednesday morning as Pvt. Charles Graner Jr., England's former boyfriend and supervisor, was testifying.

England had pleaded guilty to seven charges: two counts of conspiracy to mistreat prisoners, four counts of abusing detainees and one count of committing an indecent act.

The maximum punishment for the counts to which England pleaded guilty would be 11 years in prison.

Graner, who was convicted separately in the scandal and sentenced to 10 years in prison, testified England was just following orders by placing a dog leash around an Iraqi prisoner's neck and leading the detainee out of his cell.

The technique was legitimate, Graner said.

Pohl excused the jury and admonished the defense team because Graner's testimony, he said, contradicted England's guilty plea Monday.
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