Posted on 08/07/2013 8:41:21 AM PDT by don-o
Standby attorneys for Maj. Nidal Hasan have filed a motion to cut ties with the man who said he carried out the Fort Hood shooting.
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.
"Working in concert with the prosecution to achieve the death sentence is something we can't do," Poppe said.
The judge delayed testimony and the court room cleared to consider the matter further in private with Hasan.
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The guy admits it, says it’s “act of war”, wears US uniform... summary execution by sundown today.
There’s not a snowball’s chance that this administration allows the death sentence for this act of “workplace violence.”
God Bless the police officer who put a bullet in Hasan’s spine and sentenced him to a wheel chair for life. This act might be the closest we get to Justice.
I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY THIS TRIAL NEEDS TO TAKE *MONTHS*
The guys is admitting it, admitting he is a traitor,... shoot him now.
Perhaps we should clarify this.
In most trials, a question of guilt or innocence is the issue. In this trial, the accused confesses he did it and, instead, seems to want the world to know why he did it. That’s not the proper place for a court of law or even a military tribunal.
He violated his oath and should be courtmartialed, yes. So, if this is then about whether he receives the death penalty, and the accused wants the death penalty, I see nothing wrong with the defendant’s counsel helping the accused with that goal.
I know it sounds a bit daft but what this man is trying to do is make a mockery of his own trial by declaring Islamic law to be greater than American law and that he was following the orders of Islamic law.
Frankly, as an attorney, I’d be more upset with representing that notion before a military court than I would be representing a man who wants to martyr himself.
My only requirement for the death penalty is that it is carried out within 3 months of being issued. Burial at an undisclosed location.
Yes, but isn’t this motion just yet another defense “delay and confound and confuse” move to make an appeal even MORE confusing and uncertain?
I can see NO Supreme Court EVER “approving” a death sentence when the “defendant” is representing himself. Yes, yes - this is a “military trial” but the democrat-Muslim-liberal media-administration is never going to accept that little “problem” when it tries to prevent any Muslim form getting killed.
No,swaddle the corpse in bacon fat and hand it over to the Saudi’s
This is a sample of what we would/will see if guantomino prisoners are tried in US civilian courts. This is Obamas justice on display making a debacle of the US military, absolutely zero respect for the victims and their families
What? Was this noon already booked?
What a farce.
I was being “compassionate” ;)
Some Islamist said something to the effect, “Americans like Coke-a-Cola and we like death!”
I can certainly see a win-win situation here. We’ll drink Coke after we shoot him.
That was my comment yesterday, but I capitalized each word.
What. A. Farce.
Sitting in a soiled diaper and people having to wipe him like an infant.
Suits him.
I hope he has an infected diaper rash that bleeds and turns into gangrene.
>> The guys is admitting it, admitting he is a traitor,... shoot him now.
Naw, take that bullet and use it to shoot a big ol’ feral hog. 300 pounder. Have a “biggest pig” contest; what the heck, make it a happening! We got guys down here that do this for a living.
Gut the hog — you don’t have to be meticulous here, leave some bowel squeezins and blood and stuff in there — and sew that bastard inside, with just his muslim head sticking out. As an additional insult, have women do this encasement; they can cut his hair and beard too. If his arms and legs have to stick out a little, that’s fine.
Tie some floats around his head with barb wire; don’t want him to drown, do we. Tie lots of floats around the pig, too.
Then float the whole mess out onto a pond in this hundred-plus Texas heat and let the bugs do the rest... shouldn’t take more than a week or two.
Charge admission to cover court costs and execution costs and such.
Hasan’s attorneys are doing what I would do if I were them. He’s trying to put them into an ethical box, and they need to get out of the case to avoid it. By doing this, Hasan is trying to create an issue for appeal on grounds of ineffective counsel. Normally, appellate courts rule that where the defendant creates the counsel issues, they don’t have an issue. But in death penalty cases, those rules don’t apply so much.
If I were the trial court judge, I would give Hasan’s attorneys a full hearing on their motion, then deny it. They’ve covered themselves ethically by asking to be relieved, and the Court has ordered them to remain. They are, after all, only advisory and not full trial counsel. So the guy didn’t take their advice. Too bad. And no issue for appeal.
Black Jack Pershing would have added that he have a pig valve placed in his heart, so that he would believe that if he died, he would forfeit his place in the muslim paradise.
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