The U.S. soldier implicated in the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan “doesn’t remember” the incident, his lawyer, John Henry Browne, said Monday after their first face-to-face meeting.

John Henry Browne: “He doesn’t remember everything in the evening in question. That doesn’t mean he has amnesia.”

Browne met the alleged shooter, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where Bales has been in solitary confinement since arriving there on Friday. Bales is accused of gunning down 16 civilians, including nine children and three women. In news from Afghanistan, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the United States is considering giving the Afghan government some control for the first time over when and where the U.S. conducts night-time raids in Afghan villages.