The maximum possible sentence for Bradley Manning, the US soldier who gave a number of classified files to WikiLeaks, has been cut from 136 years to possible 90 years.
The judge presiding over the court martial, Colonel Denise Lind, said some of the 20 counts for which Manning has been found guilty were repetitive.
In the motion, defence lawyers argued that the government had taken single acts of criminality and split them into several separate violations, therefore the possible sentence.
According to the Guardian, Lind granted all defence requests to merge counts, except specifications four and six of charge II that relate to stealing and purloining of the Iraq and Afghan warlogs.
Manning was found not guilty on the most serious charge, aiding the enemy, and of another count relating to the transmission of an encrypted video of a US air strike in Garani, Afghanistan, the report added.
