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Defense lawyer: Fort Hood suspect may be paralyzed
Heavy EFL.
The attorney for the Army psychiatrist accused of killing fellow soldiers at Fort Hood says doctors have told the soldier he may be paralyzed from the waist down.
The heart [urp] bleeds ...
Attorney John Galligan told The Associated Press on Friday that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan told him that he has no feeling in his legs and doctors say the condition may be permanent. Galligan says Hasan also told him he had extreme pain in his hands.

Hasan was shot by police officers responding to last week's shootings at Fort Hood. Galligan spoke with him Thursday in the intensive care unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. Hasan was coherent during his first meeting with his defense lawyer in a hospital intensive care unit, the attorney said Friday. Galligan told the CBS "Early Show" that Hasan was alert but began to fade toward the end of their hour-long session Thursday.

Galligan said Hasan's medical condition remains "extremely serious." But he says Hasan was alert enough to know he was speaking with his lawyer.

"He understands who I am. We can talk .... But I was only there for an hour and towards the end of the one-hour session, I could tell I was kind of pushing him in terms of my ability to keep him fresh and alert in a discussion with me," Galligan said.

Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the attack at the sprawling Texas post that also left 29 people wounded. Hasan was charged in the hospital without his lawyers present, Galligan said.

"What I find disturbing is that my client is in ICU, and he's 150 miles south of his defense counsel, and he's being served with the charges," he told The Associated Press. "Given his status as a patient, I'm troubled by this procedure and that I'm not there. I'm in the dark, and that shouldn't be the case. I am mad."
Boy howdy that's just a shame. If you're that unhappy we could always unplug your client, throw him on a gurney and toss him in the back of a Hummvee for the ride to the courtroom. Texas has some scenic back roads ...

Posted by: Steve White 2009-11-13
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