Defense attorneys are compiling evidence to claim insanity for Major Hasan. It must be collected before a psychiatric evaluation is completed. The Army has created a sanity board to evaluate whether Hasan can mentally stand trial. Legal experts say it could buy him out of the death penalty, but it wouldn’t hand attorneys a win…
The defense attorney for Major Hasan, who is paralyzed from the chest down and still in the hospital, declared they will most likely enter a not guilty plea for the Fort Hood murder charges. He says an insanity defense is possible for his client.
Major Hasan, now paralyzed, will have his first court hearing from his hospital room this weekend. It will determine whether to place him in jail or leave him in the hospital pre-trial. A democratic senator also claims there may be additional emails between Hasan and radical imam Anwar Al-Awlaki that were intercepted by the government….
