Judge halts trial in Fort Hood shooting rampage
Source: dallasnews
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The standby attorney for the soldier charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage accused Maj. Nidal Hasan on Wednesday of deliberately charting a course toward a conviction and death sentence, abruptly halting the trial after only one day.
Lt. Col. Kris Poppe, Hasan’s lead court-appointed standby attorney, said he is willing to step in and be Hasan’s defense lawyer. But he asked that his responsibilities as co-counsel be minimized if Hasan, who is representing himself at trial, continues to work toward being executed.
It is “clear his goal is to remove impediments or obstacles to the death penalty and is working toward a death penalty,” Poppe told the judge overseeing the case at the Texas military base.
Hasan responded: “I object. That’s a twist of the facts.”
The judge, Col. Tara Osborn, then cleared the courtroom.
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so he'll have a wider selection of virgins in heaven. Much like drinking until the late hours at a bar, the choices look a lot better at the end of the night (after drunkenness and desperation) so he wants to beat the crowd. 
He should be ruled insane for not being able to distinguish (make the distinction) between a spiritual reality/jihad and the real world.
That ruling would/could also apply to many RW Tea/Repukes...just sayin' 
If he was so concerned about the misery of those he considered his equals in Afghanistan, he should have deployed and used his tax payer funded medical training to help the people he claimed to love so much.
He could have defected over there and done some good. But oh no, he has to play avenging angel and kill people who were unarmed, and he knew they couldn't stop him:
Staff Sgt. Alonzo M. Lunsford Jr.
...Sergeant Lunsford, who was unarmed, was shot once in the head and six times in the body. He had played dead, and then tried to exit the building, but Major Hasan followed him outside and shot him in the back, he said...
“I will be cross-examined by the man who shot me,” said Sergeant Lunsford, 46, who retired from the Army and remains blind in his left eye. “You can imagine all the emotions that are going to be coming up...”
The Army has spent more than $5 million on the case, surrounding the outside of the courthouse with giant sand-packed barriers that protect against explosions and transporting Major Hasan for hearings by helicopter from the nearby Bell County Jail, where he is being held at Army expense.
The Army has also paid for his military defense lawyers, paralegals and experts as well as the rental costs for a trailer next to the courthouse that one lawyer called “the Hasan hut,” where he works under tight security...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/us/as-trial-begins-in-fort-hood-spree-experts-see-landmark-case.html?pagewanted=all
I was going to make a longer post, none of it complimentary. So I'll let nicer people make the case for him.