Wednesday morning, defense attorneys argued unsuccessfully to exclude any testimony about sniperattack victims other than Franklin in sentencing proceedings if Malvo is convicted.
In conferring the medal, President Barack Obama described the conditions faced by Romesha and 52 other soldiers when they came under attack from mortar, rocket-propelled grenade, machine-gun and sniper fire on October 3, 2009, at Combat Outpost Keating in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.