The defendant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, 60, sat silently with his legal team, at times swiveling in his chair, while Ms. Miller described the pretrial agreement, as the plea offer is called.

On May 30, the Pennington County State’s Attorney’s Office sent a letter to Bates with details of a plea offer, giving him the option to plead guilty to one count of accessory to a felony.

He was innocent.” Based on Gibbs’ declara­tion of innocence, the de­­fense did not seek a plea offer from former District Attorney Willaim Higgins, and Higgins never made an offer.