Kari Bales, third from right, stands next to attorney Lance Rosen, third from left, as she listens to her sister, Stephanie Tandberg, second from right, read a statement to reporters Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, outside the building housing a military courtroom on Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington state, where a preliminary hearing ended Tuesday for Kari's husband, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales. Bales is accused of 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder for a pre-dawn attack on two villages in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan in March of 2012. At right is Stephanie's husband, Eric Tandberg. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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