Posted on 08/20/2013 5:44:26 PM PDT by chessplayer
Prosecutors will not be allowed to enter evidence that Nidal Hasan intended to commit jihad in his mass murder spree at Fort Hood nearly four years ago, the judge in the court-martial ruled yesterday. Col. Tara Osborn also struck from evidence the correspondence between Hasan and al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, although she did allow prosecutors to use records of Hasans Internet usage and search histories at the time of the shooting:
This wont hamper prosecutors at all, since Hasan admitted to the murders in his opening statement. The charges do not include terrorism, thanks to its lack of inclusion in the UCMJ, but the murder charges carry the death penalty anyway.
The real damage in this ruling is to the survivors and the families of the deceased. They want to pursue civil litigation against Hasan, and against the Obama administrations designation of the attack as workplace violence. Lawsuits will force the Department of Defense to answer for that decision, which keeps the dead and wounded from being recognized as victims of a terrorist attack. An attorney representing the families expressed his outrage yesterday, saying that the evidence of Hasans motives should have been allowed as they would in any first-degree murder trial.
can they at least say he said allah akbar before opening fire on the crowd?
can we at least let obviouls facts and statements the guy made in? HE HIMSELF SAID HE DID IT FOR JIHAD!!!!
EFFING ENTIRE COUNTRY RESET. The ball-less must be removed and the problems must be dealt with completely.
The fix is in again...this country is so gone
“The fix is in again...this country is so gone”
This shows the military brass is fully corrupted and in the pocket of the administration.
What kind of insanity is this?
Hang the bastard, cut out his heart and lungs and
give someone else a chance to live.
Really, and tell him first.
Hassan we are going to hang you but right now
we are waiting to find recipients for your organs...
Hasan and his chain of command need to be brought up on treason charges.
The Judge is under orders. This trial has nothing to do with fairness or Justice.
It is a political trial and this Judge is no Judge at all , just another Obama flunky.
I suspect that jihadi/muji Hasan is more than willing to lay out the major motive.
.... and this is a military trial.
Ugh...
Yup. The judge got her orders from obbbammma. Or Holder.
i am tired of the sh^t, tired of this sh^t, tired of this sh^at!!!!
Just put him in a cage with some starving hogs.
I’m sure Eric Holder will commence exploring any ‘Civil Rights violations’ committed by Hasan after this trial is over.. And after he’s done establishing whether or not George Zimmerman ever said the “n” word one time in his entire life.
Female judges have been more deadly to America than Islamic terrorists!
Got that right. As soon as Hasan brings it up, then the prosecution should be able to drive right through the open door. And from all I’ve read, Hasan is just stupid enough to testify on his own behalf and he intends to prove he was “merely” responding to American imperialist aggression.
It’s gone. But what exactly we should or could do about that is far from clear.
The piece of $h!t will never get the death penalty in this jihadi-a$$-kissing country!
If he is found guilty, he will go to prison until the country forgets about him. Then, if there is a democrat president, he will mysteriously be set free and we will not be told about it.
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