Barksdale Air Force Base, La. — A three-day preliminary hearing concluded Saturday and another was scheduled for Jan. 26 in the case of a U.S. air force fighter pilot charged with dereliction of duty for mistakenly bombing Canadians in Afghanistan.
Major Harry Schmidt faces up to six months in prison if convicted in a court martial. Four Canadian soldiers were killed and eight wounded when he dropped a 225-kilogram bomb near Kandahar in April, 2002, thinking their live-ammunition exercise was enemy anti-aircraft fire.
An air force judge considered eight pretrial motions in the hearing, including whether the government should be forced to release to the public more than 1,000 pages of documents related to the case.
Major Schmidt's court martial will take place some time after the January hearing.
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