[1066AD]

And so it starts.

[Lurker]

This creep deserves all the protections the UCMJ offers. Then he deserves a first class hanging.

[SatinDoll]

OK, Hasan’s lawyered up. That won’t change what’s on those videotapes. He murdered people in cold blood. Actions speak louder than any spoken words.

[Jaxter]

If this disgusting piece of garbage dos not get the death penalty , and have it carried out quickly, he will spend the rest of his life in prison converting other pieces of garbage to be muslim killers.

[BAW]

Lawyered up. No surprise.

[Frantzie]

The money for the attorneys retainer probably came from the Muslim Brotherhood aka Saudis.

I bet Hasan has $13 million bank account in the middle east somewhere.

[OpusatFR]

I’m waiting for the Justice Department under Holder to step in and attempt to co-opt this trial.

I hope the military stands firm and tells him to pound sand.

[the long march]

Wait a minute, since when can the family declare who the lawyer is? This guy has no ability to agree to have this guy as a lawyer and as far as I know he has not been officially charged with anything. Shot this guy on sight

[BlueLancer]

J.P. Galligan is a retired Colonel, ex-military judge, who has turned stridently anti-military over the last several years since his retirement. His tendency is to believe everything that his client tells him and harangue the court with more unintelligible words per minute than any other military or civilian attorney inside the bar, as if he's getting paid by the word (which, in all honesty, he may be).

The truest form of ammoral hired gun in the lawyer-business.

Samauri Court Reporter

[Candor7]

There is no decision on how Hasan will be tried. Thats very bad news at this point.

[WestTexasWend]

Hoping that the state of Texas will retain its right to prosecute him for the one civilian death he caused.

[RobRoy]

I see in his future a fear of dying of dihydrogen monoxide poisoning.

But fortunately waterboarding is completely harmless.

[mtngrandpa]

Colonel (ret) John P. Galligan (”JP”)

Colonel John Galligan retired from the US Army in June 2001.

At the time of his retirement, he was serving as the Chief Circuit Judge, 3rd Judicial Circuit, Fort Hood, Texas.

Born in 1949 at Fort Bliss, El Paso,Texas, Colonel Galligan spent his childhood as a military dependant, accompanying his parents on remote military assignments to Fort Churchill,Canada, Taipel, Formosa, and Istanbut, Turkey.

Upon Graduating from Georgetown University ( school of Foreign Service) in Washington,DC, in 1971, Colonel Galligan was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the military intelligence branch.

To fulfill his regular Army commission responsibilities, he served as a combat arms officer in the infantry branch,initially as a platoon leader and later as a company executive officer and the Brigade Courts and Boards Officer, with the 41st infantry, Combat Developments Experimentation Command, Fort Ord, California.

Selected for the US Army Excess Leave Program in 1973, Colonel Galligan received his J.D. (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Puerto Rico in 1976. From 1976-1979, he served as a Defense Counsel and later as a Trial Counsel in the 1st Armored DIvision, Federal Republic of Germany. From 1979 until 1981, Colonel Galligan served as an Appellate Counsel with the Government Appellate Division, US Army Legal Services Agency, representing the government in cases before the US Army Court of Military Review and the Court of Army Appeals.

After completing the Graduate Course at the Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, Virginia, Colonel Galligan was selected to assist in developing the Trial Counsel Assistance Program, designed to assist military prosecutors in developing trial advocacy skills.

Colonel Galligan twice served in the US Army Litigation Division, First as a Branch Chief from 1988 until 1991 and later as the Division Chief from 1992 until 1994. He had two tours with the 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, first as the Dupty Staff Judge Advocate from 1985 until 1988 and as the Staff Judge Advocate from 1991 until 1992. From 1992 until 1994, Colonel Galligan served as the Staff Judge Advocate, US Army South, in Panama.

In 1997, he assumed duties as a Ciucuit Judge at Fort Hood and , in 1999, took over responsibilities as the Chief Circuit Judge for the third Judicial Circuit, one of the largest and busiest jurisdictions in the Army.

In 1983, Colonel Galligan was selected to participate as a member of a Judicial Reform Assessment Team, Coordinated by the US Department of State, to consult with high level governmental officials and members of the legal community in El Salvador and Honduras on issues related to legal reform, with particular emphasis on the area of criminal prosecution and military justice. In 1999, he participated as an instructor with a DILLS team dispatched to Bogota, Columbia, to perform similar functions.

Colonel Galligan is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Washington, DC. and Texas. He is admitted to the highest courts in those jurisdictions. as well as being a member before the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Claims Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. He served as the Vice- Chair and later as the Chair for the Military Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.

In addition to the usual Basic and Advanced Courses for his Branch, Colonel Galligan is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College (1985) and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces ( 1995).

His Medal ( with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters), and the Legion of Merit ( with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters.
Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-11-09 17:22|

http://rantburg.com:81/poparticle.php?ID=282937&D=2009-11-09&SO=&HC=2

[browardchad]

Galligan questioned whether Hasan could get a fair trial in either criminal or military court, given President Barack Obama's planned visit to the base on Tuesday and public comments by the post commander, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone.

"You've got his commander in chief showing up tomorrow," Galligan said. "That same kind of publicity naturally creates an issue as to whether you find a fair and impartial forum, whether that's in the military or even if it were in a federal forum."

Yeah, right -- try Hasan at the Hague.

And the issue of Obama "showing up?"  Anyone who thinks he will prejudice a trial against a murderous Muslim is delusional. He'll show up -- and that's about it.

[a fool in paradise]

Authorities won't say when charges would be filed or if Hasan would face military justice.

There are some on FR who say it is unconstitional to hold a man without charges.

If we are not holding him then there should be no guard at the door and we should not be picking up the tab.

[Busywhiskers]

An murderous attack by an Army officer against Army personnel on an Army post. Why wouldn’t it be tried under the UCMJ?

[syriacus]

I'll bet Hasan was disappointed when he was transferred from Walter Reed.

He probably hoped to perform his terror duties in closer proximity to DC.

[Pilsner]

Here is a webpage where COL Galligan is running for Bell County Judge. In Texas, the County "Judge" is the Chief Executive Officer of the County, and Bell County has three County Courts at Law, which handle the actual judicial work, including serving as a Judge at Fort Hood. Yet COL Galligan's election page is all about his legal and judicial experience. Which leads me to conclude that he is either too clueless to know what the County Judge's job is, or thinks the voters are too dumb to know.

Here is the State Bar's webpage about COL Galligan.

A quick Google shows that he advertises as defending in Courts Martial, which is probably how the family found him. Lets face it. Hasan is going to have an attorney. Having an attorney who doesn't know his way around a Court Martial will just give him a chance to appeal on ineffective assistance of counsel grounds. So this development is a good thing.

We know why Hasan murdered those soldiers, even if Chrissy Matthews, and the New York Times are never able to get to the bottom of it. So we don't need to hear what he has to say. In fact, I hope the SOB had his jaw shattered by a round, so that he can't speak, because I don't want to hear him either boasting of what he did for Allah, or whining that he ought to be let off because some body called him a name.

[madison10]

Can Hasan even get a lawyer from outside the military? (just asking) Everyone, at least those with the PC degrees, seem to be of the opinion Hasan was NOT in the U.S. Army. They act like he was some poor Muslim guy who got suckered into shooting people at an Army installation.

[papasmurf]

His bio seems excellent , I'd want him, too. No political donations found.

[Candor7]

ABC News announced that Hasan will be tried in a military court.