Posted on 08/07/2013 8:41:21 AM PDT by don-o
I know it’s his right, but if he’s defending himself then is that grounds for appeal if he does get the death penalty? Inadequate representation and all the rest?
That is very smart. So, of course it won’t happen.
“This is the greatest nation in the world and I’m going to change it”. Since January 2009 the president, who walks lightly in his loafers, has been making a debacle of our military, our laws and our citizens.
If hassan is not hung from the nearest cotton wood tree, but given a “life sentence”, we can kiss our hineys goodbye. Do not shoot him, that is a military thing, hanging is for nobodys.
The new Amerikan circus is in its fourth year of probably a twenty or more year run.
No (again), pass him through the hog first, alive or dead, it makes no difference to Mr. hog.
For what he did I'd say alive when dumped into the sty, but then that's just me...
Regards,
GtG
Military lawyers obviously are subject to the orders/instructions of the military judge so I’d wager that they’ll be ordered to remain.I don’t know how it would work with civilian lawyers.Perhaps civilian lawyers have to agree to be subject to *all* of the judge’s instructions before being allowed to participate in a court martial.
Bury him with pig entrails.
5.56mm
That’s a good point. I would be interested to learn of the major differences in civilian vs military courts.
He deserves a firing squad made up of the members of families of those he mowed down.. anyone who wants to stand by him, have at it. Holder? Holder??
I actually have a certain amount of respect for this guy, at least he has principles and is willing to die for them, like a soldier...unlike the worthless POS wonks who classified this as “workplace violence”.
Note that the above statement is NOT an endorsement of what he did. I’d be the first to grant him his wish if I could, but I would welcome others who were directly injured by him to go ahead of me.
I've read of cases in civilian courts where a defense lawyer wanted to resign from the case only to be instructed by the judge to remain.I even read of one case where a lawyer refused to represent a client after having had a request to resign denied by the judge.That lawyer was jailed (at least briefly) for contempt of court.In a military court I wouldn't be surprised if a civilian lawyer is subject to all the same sanctions that a military one would be...except maybe being shot at sunrise.;-)
“encasement” Hahahhaha!
There is a big difference between a man who wants to “martyr himself”, and handing that task over to the American Justice System, “Military” or otherwise. He may get the death penalty, he may WANT the Death Penalty, but his execution will be a LONG LONG way off, if it ever occurs. HE had proclaimed that what he did was an act of Jihad against America and its representatives (his direct victims), even while the Administration is still okay with characterizing it as “workplace violence”.(My first thought when I heard of this incident was that they might try to call it “friendly fire”.) What the Administration is saying by the workplace violence label is thst whatever Hasan says his motives are, he is simply delusional and his words are not to be taken seriously. This leaves him some kind of “out” based on the abstracted concept of “not guilty by reason of insanity”, not that that would carry any legal weight in this particular court of law,applied to this particular case,
yet that’s the hidden message Obama and Holder seem to be wanting to send to their pals in the Radical Islamic Jihad,and its constituency. Hasan may be executed, but not by them.We are going to be stuck with him for a long long time. And stuck PAYING for him, and his daily “needs”.
Why shoot him, water-board him with "original recipe" coke (which will dissolve lunch meat overnight!) until he expires than inter his corpse in a drum and top off with more coke. After an appropriate interval, pour the liquid into a septic tank, remove any remain bones, grind any solid remains in a wood chipper and disperse in the pig sty. That should guarantee no martyrs welcome, no 72 virgins. Videotape the whole process, in lieu of closing title credits a banner in Arabic reading "المتواجدون التالي", show tape on al jazeera hourly.
Why shoot him when you can expunge him completely?
G
“Several considerations taken together lead the Court to conclude that the Constitution permits a State to limit a defendant’s self-representation right by insisting upon trial counsel when the defendant lacks the mental competency to conduct his trial defense unless represented.”
http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/422/806/case.html
You do not need to be insane to lack the mental capacity to represent yourself. However, you do probably need to be crazier than this buttwipe to justify forcing legal counsel on someone. I suspect the judge needs to make sure Hasan is sane enough to be OK representing himself.
I am 10,000% cynical of Odumbo, so I would not be surprised to see him get a presidential pardon.
I don’t understand why this is expected to take months
The Prosecution should just rest right now.
He admits it, after all, and says he is an enemy combatant.
Obama (the MUSLIM infiltraitor) is scared to death of having him get the death penalty.
Surprised the defense attorney hasn’t slipped him a cyanide tablet and save us a bunch of tax money.
Lt. Col. Kris Poppe said it became clear yesterday that Hasan representing himself is moving toward a death penalty and as defense attorneys they can not be put in the position of assisting him to do that.
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