FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- A military judge in North Carolina set a new timetable for the desertion case against Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at a pre-trial hearing nearly three years after the soldier's return from captivity.
The trial is now set for Oct. 23 with military panel selection likely the week before.
The judge already had scratched three previous trial dates amid delays over the exchange of classified information between prosecutors and defense lawyers.
Bergdahl's trial on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy was most recently scheduled for April, but the judge postponed it indefinitely.
Bergdahl, of Hailey, Idaho, left his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held by the Taliban and its allies about five years.
The military investigation of Bergdahl began after he was freed May 31, 2014, in exchange for five Taliban prisoners.