No delay for trial of Fort Hood shooting suspect

May 9, 2013 @ 8:01 pm

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The 2007 file photo provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) shows Nidal Malik Hasan when he undertook the Disaster and Military Psychiatry Fellowship program. (AP Photo/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, File) | Zoom

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - A military judge has refused to delay this month's trial of an Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Central Texas.

Maj. Nidal Hasan's attorneys on Thursday had sought to delay the court-martial to Sept. 1. They said military jurors might be influenced by recent national media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings that compared the suspects, two Muslim brothers, to Hasan.

Prosecutors said the delay was unnecessary because Hasan was mentioned only briefly in some news reports about the Boston attacks.

Jury selection in Hasan's trial is to start May 30, with testimony to begin July 1.

Hasan faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder.


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  • Exhausted wrote...
    What do they mean "IF"
    July 6, 2011 9:36 am
    He was caught on camera as well as witnesses & confession. Save tax payers & put him to death!!
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  • boomshakalaka wrote...
    ..
    July 6, 2011 1:50 pm
    how about Death By Bacon?
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  • Saltchucker wrote...
    Boomshakalaka...close but.......
    August 3, 2012 1:11 pm
    ...that would be a horrible waste of bacon! Why waste bacon when we could force feed him some chitlins or pork bung or pickled pig feet?
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  • CldWtrSrf wrote...
    CIA run...
    July 15, 2011 6:50 am
    False Flag against America payed for by our tax payer money. Are we getting our money's worth with these CIA-l Queda operations? Thanks U.S. government. We are about due for another False Flag Terrorist attack now that Obama's numbers are falling again after that little boost with the Osama stunt. All hail Emperor Obama and his False Flags!!! Thanks in advance for censoring this MYNW.com
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  • mthood wrote...
    what happened to speedy trial
    July 15, 2011 8:41 am
    what is taking so long to get this guy to trial and final conclusion.
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  • C"mon Man wrote...
    Dont ask,dont tell.....
    April 2, 2012 10:47 am
    About this case, unless you do not want to be PC. BS!
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  • Gate Keeper wrote...
    Fear & loathing in Military
    August 3, 2012 8:28 am
    Apparently the Military like the rest of the sheeple in this nation is "cowed" by the fear of the PC police and the taboo of "offending" Islam (Satanic death cult) and moooslims in general (5th century murderous,goat raping sub human filth)so they continue to fiddley fook around with this jihadist A-H instead of sending him to meet Allah (AKA Satan). Getting pretty tiresome and it is way past time to play a serious game of cowboys & Moooslims.
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  • maplefish wrote...
    DISGRACEFUL!
    August 15, 2012 1:44 pm
    Remember the Obama administration said this was a "RANDOM WORKPLACE INCIDENT"....This is what our "Commander in Chief" actually had the balls to tell "We The PEOPLE"....
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  • longwayhome wrote...
    Just maybe
    August 22, 2012 7:11 pm
    When they are forcibly shaving him, the shaver could slip...ooops! off comes the head. And the next thing to cut.....
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Line him up in front of a wall.
    September 6, 2012 3:09 pm
    Fill his body w/ bullets. And televise, LIVE, it on Al Jazira.
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  • Basso wrote...
    Military members....
    October 11, 2012 12:29 pm
    Do not get a choice wether to shave or not. What a farce this is.
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