 Pohl was assigned to serve as the investigating officer for the article 32 hearing for Nidal Malik Hasan, the perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.Pohl was assigned to preside over the court martial of Brigadier General
Jeffrey A. Sinclair, a former deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, charged with sodomy.Following acceptance of Sinclair's guilty pleas on some (but not all) of the charges he faced (including adultery with three different women, violating a general order by possessing pornography in the Afghan theater of operations, and conduct unbecoming an officer), Pohl sentenced Sinclair to a reprimand and forfeiture of five thousand dollars a month for four months ($20,000 total).