{"id":34377,"date":"2013-03-02T08:25:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T12:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34377"},"modified":"2013-03-02T08:25:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T12:25:04","slug":"hasan-may-plead-out-to-lesser-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34377","title":{"rendered":"Hasan may plead out to lesser charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/fort-hood-suspect-might-plead-guilty-describe-attack-1.210218\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that Colonel Tara Olsen, the judge in the Nidal Hasan Fort Hood murder case is considering whether or not to allow Hasan to plead guilty to lesser charges of unpremeditated murder;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Any plea, which could happen at the next hearing in March, won&#8217;t stop the much-anticipated court-martial set to begin May 29. He faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted of 13 counts of premeditated murder.<\/p>\n<p>Under military law, a judge can&#8217;t accept a guilty plea for charges that carry the death penalty. Hasan&#8217;s lawyers have said he is ready to plead guilty to charges of unpremeditated murder, which don&#8217;t carry a possible death sentence, as well as the 32 attempted premeditated murder charges he faces.<\/p>\n<p>If the judge, Col. Tara Osborn, allows him to plead guilty, she will hold an inquiry in which Hasan must discuss the attack. If he says anything that isn&#8217;t consistent with what happened or indicates he isn&#8217;t truly acknowledging his guilt, the judge would stop the hearing and not accept his guilty plea, according to military law experts. He is not required to apologize or say that he is remorseful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, so all it would be is a forum like Breanna Manning&#8217;s little theater the other day where he gets to tell everyone why he murdered 14 people. I&#8217;m not interested in hearing it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that Colonel Tara Olsen, the judge in the Nidal Hasan Fort Hood &hellip; <a title=\"Hasan may plead out to lesser charges\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34377\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hasan may plead out to lesser charges<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}