Private pleads not guilty in stabbing of sergeant at Camp Carroll

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Private pleads not guilty in stabbing of sergeant at Camp Carroll
Camp Henry soldier facing 17½ years as court-martial opens

By Franklin Fisher, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, May 11, 2005

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=28999

TAEGU, South Korea — An Army private based in Taegu pleaded not guilty Monday to murder in the stabbing death of a sergeant at Camp Carroll earlier this year.

Pfc. Gregory David Robertson’s court-martial opened Monday morning at Camp Henry on charges stemming from the fatal Feb. 19 stabbing of Sgt. Kenneth Lamond Kelly at Camp Carroll in Waegwan.

The Army also charged him in connection with a separate Camp Henry incident. He is accused of entering a female soldier’s room in November and touching her while she slept.

In the stabbing case, Robertson pleaded guilty to wrongfully possessing a knife; to trying to impede the investigation by trying to hide the knife; and to disobeying an officer’s order when he left Camp Henry without permission. He’d been restricted to the post pending trial on the November incident.

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