{"id":37010,"date":"2013-08-08T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37010"},"modified":"2013-08-08T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T18:05:30","slug":"hasan-circus-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37010","title":{"rendered":"Hasan circus continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

After yesterday’s recess, Judge Osborne told the lawyers who are assisting Nidal Hasan in his defense (and I use the term in it’s loosest sense) that they will continue serving in that role. But the New York Times<\/a> reports that those lawyers aren’t especially happy about that;<\/p>\n

But the standby attorneys were adamant and said they would appeal to a higher court.<\/p>\n

“We believe your order is causing us to violate our rules of professional conduct,” Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, Hasan’s lead standby defense attorney, told the judge.<\/p>\n

The exchange prompted Osborn to briefly recess the trial. But the hearing later resumed to allow witness testimony and the standby attorneys were told to continue in their current duties. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the attorneys had filed an appeal.<\/p>\n

Poppe had told the judge Wednesday that if Hasan were allowed to continue on his own, he and Hasan’s other standby attorneys wanted their roles minimized so Hasan couldn’t ask them for help with a strategy they opposed. They said they couldn’t watch Hasan fulfill a death wish.<\/p>\n

“It becomes clear his goal is to remove impediments or obstacles to the death penalty and is working toward a death penalty,” Poppe told the judge Wednesday. That strategy, he argued, “is repugnant to defense counsel and contrary to our professional obligations.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, well, maybe they see it as another way to delay the inevitable. I mean it took months to decide that Hasan can keep his beard. I know this one seems like a real legal playground, but it won’t compare to the antics TSO is going to see when he goes to Guantanamo next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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