Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | Under the US military rule book, a soldier must be arraigned and his trial officially started within 120 days of him being put into captivity. Yet in an exhaustive 117-page motion that Manning has been so far spent 845 days in pretrial confinement "and still has not had his day in court." Should the trial kick off on 4 February next year, as it is currently scheduled to do, he will have been held for 983 days. |