A federal judge on Tuesday voided the court-martial conviction of Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army sergeant who walked off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured by the Taliban.
. Bergdahl was freed in a 2014 prisoner swap and was then convicted three years later, leaving him with a dishonorable discharge and demotion in rank to the lowest enlisted pay grade. U.S.
District Judge Reggie Walton on Tuesday ruled that the military judge who presided over Bergdahl’s court martial had failed to disclose an application at the time to become a federal immigration judge, potentially creating the appearance of bias given then-President Donald Trump’sabout Bergdahl.
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