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| 2009-11-13 | |||
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."
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #21 ION NEWSMAX > FORT HOOD SHOOTER MAY NOT FACE THE DEATH PENALTY [US MilJusSsys has not executed anyone since 1961, despite incidents]??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-11-13 21:49 |
| #20 maybe the civitans can build him a ramp for the trip up to the gallows. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2009-11-13 19:17 |
| #19 Hopefully Hasan won't have to suffer very long, if you know what I mean. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-11-13 17:45 |
| #18 "Defense lawyer: Fort Hood suspect may be paralyzed" And....? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-13 17:23 |
| #17 Too bad. His victims are dead. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2009-11-13 17:12 |
| #16 They won't feed you three squares in Libya--typically the family must care for the prisoner, making it hell for those without relatives in the area. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-11-13 16:32 |
| #15 If true this is almost as good as the death penalty, unless some Scottish court releases him to Libya... |
| Posted by: regular joe 2009-11-13 16:18 |
| #14 Thanks for the link Dar - I was stunned to hear about the murder and hoped they would catch the SOB. Don't you just love that smirk on his face? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-11-13 14:45 |
| #13 How convenient! We've got another p.o.s. up here in the Seattle area who assassinated a cop on Halloween. He was just caught last Friday after a shoot out, and now he's paralyzed as well. |
| Posted by: Dar 2009-11-13 14:28 |
| #12 CF, you are too kind. Tell him the porcine products are in his painkillers. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-13 14:05 |
| #11 You don't have to have a lawyer present to be served with charges do you? And tell the guy the paralysis is a side effect of the porcine blood transfusions.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-11-13 13:17 |
| #10 If Galligan's so pissed off, he could always move to be closer to the poor little flower in his time of need. No one's stopping him from renting a nice little place in San Antonio, are they? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you only needed an attorney present when you are being interrogated, unless you waive that right. You need to be told of what the charges are, but there is no requirement to have a lawyer hold your "extremely painful" hands at that time. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-11-13 12:32 |
| #9 "Think of the money the murdering mooslim bastard will save on lap dances." -true. Yet I cringe at all the tax $$ wasted on keeping this p.o.s. alive for trial and the eventual media circle jerk this trial will be. Pump him for info then slit his throat. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2009-11-13 12:30 |
| #8 Well well well, look like the a-hole woke up in a little bit of hell on earth. Now we just need to make sure he is getting care from a mean spirited and incompetent 72 year old virgin nurses who don't believe in overtreating with pain medicines. |
| Posted by: Nimrod Finster 2009-11-13 12:30 |
| #7 Does that make it ok to give the injection through his legs? |
| Posted by: Keith G 2009-11-13 12:24 |
| #6 Think of the money the murdering mooslim bastard will save on lap dances. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-11-13 12:20 |
| #5 All those virgins and poor Hasan can't do a damn thing. Talk about dead wood. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-11-13 12:17 |
| #4 Better I suppose than first reports saying that "the shooter being among the dead" I'd like to hear a bit more about those initial reports. How is it a three star general had it wrong? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-11-13 12:09 |
| #3 If you don't like the case,don't take it. When your client shoots up an Army base,these little things happen. |
| Posted by: whatadeal 2009-11-13 11:56 |
| #2 GOOD |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-11-13 11:49 |
| #1 "The last time that bear ate a lawyer, he had the runs for thirty-three days." - Judge Roy Bean |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-11-13 11:48 |