Attempt espionage Alaska was convicted soldiers will face a maximum of life imprisonment, he went before, the U.S. Army sentencing panel on Monday, the military said Thursday.
SPC. William Colton Millay pleaded guilty last month, but Richardson Joint Base in Anchorage Elmendorf officials announced on Thursday that his request. The JBER spokesman John Pennell said the main reason for the delay is because the process of selection panel, it functions as a penalty jury. Officials decided to wait until close to Monday's hearing - when fewer opportunities Millay was originally scheduled at the beginning of the general court-martial - "we defiled panel," Pennell said.
Mile, Owensboro, Kentucky, in other allegations, was accused to an undercover FBI agent he thought was a foreign intelligence agent Defense Information transmission.
Millay, 24, pleaded guilty on March 19 espionage attempted to seek Senior Member Member classified material, issuing false statements and the exchange of national defense information.
Seattle-based Charles Swift, his lawyer did not immediately respond to requests comments Thursday.
Millay, who base in Alaska, will be sentenced to Joint Base Lewis McChord being held in the closest military confinement facility is located in Washington. Pennell said his routine exercise in Alaska, he decided to plead guilty. Any prison time will serve as the United States disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, according to Pennell.
Sentencing panel of 5-12 members, with a series of penalties, can be considered, Mile dishonorably discharged from prison time.
Millay was arrested in October 2011.
The officials refused to disclose country Millay believe that the representatives of the FBI agent, of these details may be at the sentencing hearing, Pennell said.
Mile, military and police personnel, were observed to espionage course of the investigation, and no damage occurred, officials said.
His base in Anchorage arrest stems from an investigation by the Army, the FBI and the Air Force Office of Special Investigation of.
Army officials said the officials did not say what time Mile "access to information in their normal duties in the United States and in the previous deployment, and that it can be used to undermine the advantages of the United States or foreign countries." The segment involved, but Millay's former lawyer, Steve Karns Dallas, said the allegations cover 2011.
Millay was assigned to a combat tour in Iraq from December 2009 to July 2010, he was in South Korea, according to the Army.
Officials said the investigation does not involve the sting operation.
The officials said Millay's case, a matter of Bradley Manning, who is accused WikiLeaks leaked secret intelligence is no connection between the Army private. Mile, Benjamin Bishop, Hawaii civilians military secrets than his much younger girlfriend recently accused the links between defense contractors, according to Pennell.
The Mile began his allocation of Alaska in May 2011. Majority of the members of this year, his company was deployed to Afghanistan, but the company behind the detachment left behind Mile.
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