{"id":36658,"date":"2013-07-16T12:19:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36658"},"modified":"2013-07-16T12:19:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:19:45","slug":"jury-selected-for-hasan-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36658","title":{"rendered":"Jury selected for Hasan murder trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/news\/local-military\/fort-hood-judge-to-decide-on-anti-death-penalty-ju\/nYrqK\/?afdas\">The Austin Statesman<\/a> that finally, after a 44-month clown car ride, the trial date for the Fort Hood murder, Nidal Hasan, has been set to begin August 6th.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The jury was finalized after prosecutors successfully challenged three potential jurors, including two who had voiced opposition to the death penalty. Hasan, who is acting as his own attorney, did not challenge any jurors Tuesday and did not use his one \u201cperemptory challenge,\u201d which would have allowed him to dismiss any juror without justification.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The jury includes two officers who have expressed skepticism about the death penalty, but did not express the level of opposition shown by two jurors dismissed Tuesday. Both of those said their reservations about capital punishment stemmed from their strong religious convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Military judge Tara Osborn initially ruled Tuesday that the two officers should remain on the jury despite their death penalty feelings, saying both had pledged to set aside their religious beliefs and follow her instructions to \u201cmeaningfully consider\u201d the death penalty. But she allowed the dismissal of one based on his admission that he had already formed an opinion on Hasan\u2019s guilt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given his idiot behavior over the last few years, those two officers who have reservations about the death penalty should be ready to put Hasan to death just to shut him up. By the way, it will take 2\/3 vote to find Hasan guilty, but they must vote unanimously to put him to death. I think Hasan can take them there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin Statesman that finally, after a 44-month clown car ride, the trial date for the &hellip; <a title=\"Jury selected for Hasan murder trial\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36658\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jury selected for Hasan murder trial<\/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-36658","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\/36658","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=36658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}