Posted on 11/10/2009 6:58:40 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
WASHINGTON - Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan will be tried in a military court-martial, and prosecutors are expected to seek the death penalty, officials said yesterday.
FBI and Army investigators tried to interview Hasan, who is recovering from bullet wounds in a San Antonio, Tex., Army hospital, on Sunday, but he refused and demanded a lawyer.
Under the military system, Hasan's fellow Army officers - almost certainly combat veterans - will rule on whether he is guilty of the mass murder of 12 soldiers and one civilian at Fort Hood, and, if so, on his punishment. A death penalty would be carried out by lethal injection.
The last military execution was carried out in 1961, and the last execution in a federal court case was in 2003.
If Hasan receives the death penalty in a military court, his appeals could drag on for years. Nine soldiers are on military Death Row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; one has been there for more than 20 years.
In the first legal challenge in the Hasan case, lawyer John Galligan, who has been retained by Hasan's family, said a planned visit today by President Obama to Fort Hood for a memorial service could prejudice a potential jury.
"You've got his commander in chief showing up" at Fort Hood to meet with troops and comfort families, said Galligan, 60, of nearby Belton, Tex.
Obama's planned visit "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," the retired Army colonel added.
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I see the left putting together their talking points. :)
Hey I asked you first.
No really. What does civil disobedience mean?
Have you considered just stopping? You pay taxes?
I’m already thinking about leaving the country. Canadian socialism seems lighter than the tyrannical brand brewing here. I’ve got a line of work I could run from just about anywhere.
I have seriously thought about not paying federal taxes; in revolt and to not put me in the poor house not qualifying for welfare. Especially being that we will be paying for ObamaCare before the communism of it fully rules. But then, if you don’t pay your taxes... they garnish your savings, retirement, home, land and the pot you pee in. I am seriously considering a move to Tx. or La. (job wise this will work better as well but the jobs that pay for my move are not returning calls like they used to.) In hopes of theses states surely breaking away from the Obama communism.
Good to hear someone in Michigan has a job!
Yes, it is called compassionate communism of political correctness gone mad!
And the idiots kept believing Granholm and re-elected her. Oh, the same idiots re-elected Kwame, too.
It is strange. I had a job working for someone else. Then I quit as I could go my own way. Much happier now. People are losing their jobs. I quit mine. It'll be fun, as I pay for my own health insurance. It's less that $2K per year. Mother Pelosi won't like that.
The death penalty: 79%
Neither, he clearly needs help and should be housed in a
secure psychiatric center: 6%
I can’t believe the false messiah’s very appearance at a memorial at Fort Hood today will help the terrorist.
I can’t believe that his appearance will help the troops!
Slowly, with quotes from the Koran of the horrors of hell..., squirming against restraints under the calming glance of a Jewish physician...
Touche’ that as well.
Only problem is that Jews don’t see
muslims as the enemy.
Nothing seems to be out of the realm of possibility anymore.
The attorney:
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,
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).
Colonel Galligan’s hobbies are reading , Sailing, and Music. He has played the Cello since the age of five and , as a teenager, was awarded various State and National Music Scholarships.
He actively participated as a Cellist in various amateur orchestras, instanbul Amateur Symphony, McLean Orchestra, McLean Symphony, as well as with local Orchestra groups during his assignment to Fort Hood in 1991- 1992.
Colonel Galligan is a former member of the Belton Chapter of Rotary Club International, Following Retirement from the US Army, He established a private Law Practice in downtown Belton.
Colonel Galligan is married to the former Harriett Mechiko Despretter (” Harr”). Their sons, Michael and Timothy, reside in California.
Justice should be served, they should release him onto the base at sundown...just put him in a wheelchair next to the barracks of some of our finest......along with a shovel and a live pig.
Gee, for whom did the 7% vote?
Maybe diehard Obama fans that live political correctness when they need to.
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