A federal judge on Tuesday vacated the conviction and sentence of Bowe Bergdahl, a former Army sergeant who became a political flash point after he walked off a base in Afghanistan in protest and was held captive by the Taliban for five years.
Reggie B Walton of the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia ruled that a military judge presiding over Bergdahl’s 2017 punishment process gave the potential appearance of a conflict of interest by failing to disclose that he applied for a job in the Trump administration during the former soldier’s legal proceedings.
