This from The Olympian: While his family plods through the holidays, Pfc. Andrew Holmes sits in a detention block, one of five soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord charged in the deaths of three civilians in Afghanistan's Kandahar province this year.

His parents, sisters, brother and new baby niece are waiting at home as complicated legal wrangling plays out to determine whether he'll face a court-martial.

An appeals court must decide whether Holmes' attorney can use controversial photos of a dead Afghan man that his defense team says will clear his name.

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