{"id":3920,"date":"2013-08-05T09:32:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2013-08-05T09:32:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T07:32:56","slug":"ft-hood-shooter-trial-starts-tuesday-its-about-damn-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/08\/ft-hood-shooter-trial-starts-tuesday-its-about-damn-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ft Hood Shooter Trial starts Tuesday- It’s about damn time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maj<\/a><\/p>\n

The Court-Martial\u00a0of Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan (left) is set to start on Tuesday almost four years after the 5 November, 2009 <\/a>rampage at the Fort Hood Deployment Readiness Center that left 13 people dead and over 30 wounded. \u00a0He has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and military prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. \u00a0Incredibly, Hasan has decided to represent himself at trial after numerous conflicts with his court provided attorneys.<\/p>\n

I have a sneaking suspicion that he chose to be his own lawyer as a sneaky way to sabotage his own defense and try and save his neck when his almost certain conviction goes to appeal. \u00a0I would bet he plans on then arguing that his defense was inadequate. \u00a0If we are lucky the appeals court will tell him it was his own fault and uphold the death penalty in that case. \u00a0Hasan has also been forbidden from using the “defense of others” ploy. \u00a0He tried to claim in pretrial motions that he committed the murders to protect the Taliban. \u00a0Which claim the trial judge disallowed.<\/p>\n

The Court-Martial is expected to last around a month. \u00a0I will be watching this closely and I hope everyone else does too. \u00a0I also fully expect there to be riots in the Muslim World if he is convicted and sentenced to death.<\/p>\n

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The Court-Martial\u00a0of Fort Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan (left) is set to start on Tuesday almost four years after the 5 November, 2009 rampage at the Fort Hood Deployment Readiness Center that left 13 people dead and over 30 wounded. \u00a0He… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,60],"tags":[769,770,771,773,772,774,142],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-culture","category-contemporary-wars","tag-ft-hood","tag-hasan","tag-maj-hasan","tag-military-justice","tag-nidal-malik-hasan","tag-trial","tag-us-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}