(FILE Photo)FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - A court martial has been delayed for a Fort Campbell soldier charged with killing his estranged wife and her former mother-in-law.
A military judge granted a request by prosecutors and Sgt. Brent Burke's lawyers to postpone the proceedings, which were scheduled to begin Monday at Fort Campbell.
Burke has been charged with violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice in the deaths of Tracy Burke, and her former mother-in-law Karen Comer, at a home in Rineyville in September 2007.
A civilian judge dismissed the charges against Burke after a prosecutor cited evidence problems with the case, and the military filed charges against him less than two weeks later.
Burke is a defendant in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Tracy Burke's family.
Burke is being held in a civilian jail.
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