Fort Bragg General to plead guilty on 3 charges

Lawyer: General accused of sex crimes to plead to some of the lesser charges
CNN
By Greg Botelho
March 6, 2014

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
In 2012, Brig. Gen. Jeffery Sinclair was charged with "sodomy ... by force"
The military says he had porn, pulled rank to coerce and threaten female troops
Sinclair's lawyer blasts what he calls "pathetically weak assault charges"
His military trial is set to begin Thursday

(CNN) -- Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair -- once one of the U.S. Army's top commanders in Afghanistan and accused of "sodomy ... by force" and other military crimes -- is to set to plead guilty Thursday to some charges but not the most serious levied against him, his lawyer said.

Sinclair will plead guilty on three of the eight charges he's facing in military court, according to the office of lawyer Richard Scheff. These include "wrongfully engaging in ... inappropriate relationships" with three women soldiers from 2009 to 2012 overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany as well as domestically at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and Fort Hood, Texas.

He'll also admit to having requested and possessed "pornographic and sexually explicit photographs and movies," having "sexually explicit communications with a female Army captain, and trying "to engage in an inappropriate relationship" with another woman. And the brigadier general will plead guilty to impeding the investigation into him by deleting nude photographs and an e-mail account, his lawyer said.
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