( CNN ) -- A military judge dismissed the jury Monday in Army Brig . Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair 's court-martial after e-mails emerged over the weekend that could point to alleged Pentagon interference in the proceedings . Among the 22 pages of e-mails are a January communication in which a senior military lawyer writes Fort Bragg 's chief of military justice casting doubt on SInclair 's accuser 's credibility , and a February correspondence in which a lieutenant colonel with the Judge Advocate General 's Corps asked for a colonel 's `` thoughts/opinion '' on Sinclair 's offer to enter a plea . According to CNN affiliate WTVD , Col. James Pohl , the presiding judge in the court-martial , granted a motion to reconsider whether unlawful command influence has marred the proceedings . The judge ruled Army prosecutors failed to meet their burden of proof in denying that the court-martial had been unduly influenced . Now , according to WTVD , the court must determine whether to grant a mistrial or delay the current trial and start over . The judge ruled out his third option : dropping the most serious charges against Sinclair , said Josh Zeitz , a spokesman for the defense . Last week , Sinclair , formerly one of the top Army commanders in Afghanistan , pleaded guilty to several charges , including committing adultery , engaging in inappropriate relationships with three women , conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman , and obstruction of justice , reported the public affairs office for Fort Bragg in North Carolina . The government 's lawyers dropped two counts -- one of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman , and the other for cruelty and maltreatment -- while Sinclair still stands accused of `` sodomy ... by force and without the consent '' of his alleged victim , an Army captain . Charges also loom for alleged cruel and maltreatment of subordinates and defrauding the government , according to Fort Bragg . The accuser , whom the defense has painted as a jilted lover upset that Sinclair would n't leave his wife , testified the day after Sinclair entered pleas to some charges , with the accuser telling the court that the affair started with intimate exchanges and evolved into groping and demands for sex and oral sex , WTVD reported . She was slated to continue testifying Monday , but the judge put the case on hold . It 's unclear if she will resume testimony Tuesday . The e-mails that brought the proceedings to a halt Monday were described by defense attorney Richard Scheff as evidence showing that not only did senior Army officials believe that the accuser had a credibility issue , but also that commanders are making decision based on politics rather than justice . In the January communication , Col. Michael Lacey , a staff judge advocate , writes Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson about the accuser 's testimony regarding an iPhone she said she found December 9 . `` The forensic analysis of the phone indicates she accessed the phone before 9 December , which brings her credibility into question . The Special Victims Prosecutor ( SVP ) is trying to reconcile the forensic analysis and her statement , but it is possible that she was not truthful , '' Lacey wrote . The defense wants the remaining charges against Sinclair dismissed and says the case `` should never have come to trial . '' `` It 's a mess entirely of the government 's making , '' Scheff said . `` When the chief prosecutor quits because he does n't believe the accuser , when senior officials in the chain of command and the Pentagon agree that the accuser has a credibility problem , and when commanders make decisions based on politics instead of justice , how can you possibly call this a functional process ? ''
Judge dismisses jury after 22 pages of e-mails emerge over weekend . E-mails show Army officials had doubts about accuser 's credibility . The judge says the e-mail messages are "irrelevant" to his decision and that he will not allow them into evidence. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair pleaded guilty to several counts last week . Defense describes case as a `` mess entirely of the government 's making ''