Judge limits graphic evidence in Hasan trial
The Killeen Daily Herald reports that the Hasan trial is still plodding along at a snail’s pace in Fort Hood. Today the judge, Col. Tara Osborn, limited some of the evidence against Hasan as prejudicial;
The judge questioned the usefulness of some of the more macabre evidence, including hundreds of autopsy and crime scene photos, an eight-minute video of the scene and a dashboard camera video in which lead prosecutor Col. Mike Mulligan said a gunfight between Hasan and Fort Hood police can be overheard.
Prosecutors also wish to play a 911 phone call in which the dying breaths of Pfc. Michael Pearson can be heard, and show photos of victims with times of death written in marker on their foreheads by a sergeant performing triage at the scene of the mass shooting.
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Hasan told the court he would be willing to concede several facts.
“That would save a lot of time in showing pictures of people I killed,” he said.
I guess, it’s little statements like that he plans to make through out the trial to give him a better shot at having it declared a mistrial.
Thanks to Ex-PH2 for the link.
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A Battalion of Barracks Lawyers could only dream of making the kind of mockery of the UCMJ as this one bastard has.
Prejudicial? Where do they plan to get a Courts Martial board? has to be LTC and above and I haven’t heard of any of them being sequestered since 2009 that wouldn’t have seen them anyway! Just saying….
Everything surrounding this asshat is like monkeys fucking a football.
It really is going to take years before he disappears from the radar.
I’m wondering if he isn’t crazy like a fox…..
If ANY evidence is being held as “prejudicial” in this trial, I can tell you right now he’ll never see the death penalty. He’s already a protected, special little snowflake.
There just went justice. Did you see it? Right out the freakin’ window and GONE.
I’m trying to figure this out.
1 – Plenty of eyewitnesses
2 – Physical evidence of all kinds
3 – Admits he did it, in spades
So, what is it he’s looking for, exactly? Martyrdom? Hell, do NOT give that – – – – – – – – the satisfaction.
Castro is already being sentenced this week and he was only caught a couple of months ago. Yet this piece of sh*t is still playing us for fools.
He admitted it, there is no doubt of his guilt, he is guilty of treason, execute him and get it over with.
Seems the rule of law no longer has any meaning in our country.
If anything Hasan says is deemed prejudicial toward him, that’s his own problem, and good for the prosecution. Defendants may get relief from the prosecution’s mistakes, but not their own.
The heaping pile of “Well isn’t that special” of legal decisions in this case surpassed both reason and amusing quite some time back.
I can fix this in 5 minutes and ill say “yes I did it” in front of any law enforcement officer.
Me: did you shoot unarmed people while screaming Allah Akbar?
Hasan: I did
Me: firm grip with right hand on hasan’s troat until squirming ends. Game over. Inshallah bitch.
There’s one for the NSA files. Hi guys!
As much as he’s said “I was protecting Islam, Afghans, tortured ferrets in Iraq, etc” he’s never formally said “I’m guilty of killing those people.” He never entered a plea. The judge had to write in “not guilty” on his behalf because he refused to say anything.
Rarely do you get justice in the courts . You get the law morally right or wrong. I am wanting and hoping for concurent life sentences for each life he took running concurtently. Has not the death pentanly already removed ?
Once you establish that people were killed and wounded, the photos don’t make him any more or less guilty. I’m glad the judge disallowed them. It eliminated a basis for appeal later.
@14 refer to the manning thread comments for clarification on concurrent sentences in military court
I am with 2/17 #15. Save it for the sentencing phase. It has no bearing on the comission of the crime, but can used with victim impact statements and testimony.
Joe Williams: no – so far as anything has been made public, the needle appears to still be “on the table” for Hassan. Hopefully we’ll soon see it inserted firmly into a vein in his arm.
That’s precisely why Hassan wasn’t allowed to plead guilty when he offered to earlier – the UCMJ and/or MCM does not allow a guilty plea in capital cases. His then-legal team was trying to do an end-run around the law and use a guilty plea to save his worthless ass.
If the purpose of a trial under American law is to establish guilt or innocence – time to move on to the penalty phase.
His guilt has already been asked and answered.