What idiots, nothing better

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:38:47 +0000

What idiots, nothing better to do with their time?

Give him a diaper, let him keep his beard, and get on with his trial.

3 years later the guy should be on his way to death row.

Fort Hood Shooting Trial

artappraiser — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:01:47 +0000

In reply to Questions ready for Fort Hood suspect's jury pool

Fort Hood Shooting Trial Delayed Pending Ruling on Beard
By Manny Fernandez, New York Times, August 15, 2012

HOUSTON — The Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base in Killeen, Tex., won a temporary delay of his trial on Wednesday, after a military appeals court halted the proceedings to allow it time to rule on whether the judge in his case can order him to be forcibly shaved.

The psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, grew a beard in recent months, an expression, his defense lawyers said, of his Muslim faith. Beards violate Army regulations, and Fort Hood’s chief circuit judge, Col. Gregory Gross, has forbidden Major Hasan to sit in the courtroom during several pretrial hearings at Fort Hood as a result.

Colonel Gross has allowed the major to watch via a closed-circuit television feed in a trailer near the courthouse.

The judge has repeatedly fined Major Hasan and held him in contempt over his beard, stating that his appearance was a disruption and that he would have him forcibly shaved unless he complied. But his lawyers asked the highest military appeals court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, to prevent the shaving and issue a stay.

On Wednesday, the court granted the stay, halting all hearings until further notice [....]

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Fort Hood Shooting Trial