The trial of accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan begins next month, and at a pretrial hearing today, a judge cleared the way for government prosecutors to present a mountain of evidence against Hasan, including 124 autopsy photos and an 8-minute video of the crime scene. Killeen Daily Herald crime reporter Philip Jankowski was in the courtroom and compiled a partial inventory of the more than 800 pieces of evidence, whittled down from an even larger pool.
Learned a lot about evidence. Govt will present 124 autopsy photos, scale diagram, 911 calls, 8-min crime scene video during #Hasan's trial
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) July 25, 2013
#Forthood shooting resulted in 56 calls to 9-1-1. Govnt will present 3 during #Hasan's trial
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) July 25, 2013
Govnt also has 1,257 autopsy photos, of which they will present 124. #hasan #forthood
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) July 25, 2013
One 911 call apparent records the death of Pfc. Michael Pearson, one of 13 killed in #forthood shooting. #hasan
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) July 25, 2013
Govnt will also present dashboard camera of #forthood police officer Kim Munley, which has audio of gun battle that ended mass shooting.
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) July 25, 2013
All in all, judge said more than 400,000 pages of discovery in the case against accused #forthood shooter Nidal #Hasan
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) July 25, 2013
Investigators found 146 shell casings in aftermath of #forthood shooting. #hasan
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) July 25, 2013
There are at least 822 pieces of evidence to be presented in #Hasan's court-martial and up to 270 witnesses. #forthood
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) July 25, 2013
More than 1,100 crime scene photos, government will use 28. #forthood #hasan
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) July 25, 2013
Govnt has a scale model of the entire crime scene, which will be presented during testimony of an FBI agent. #forthood #hasan
— Phil Jankowski (@PhilJankowski) July 25, 2013
In June, Hasan had requested more time to prepare his defense strategy, which at the time was to argue the shooting spree, which killed 13 and wounded more than 30, was conducted to defend the Taliban against “members of the United States military about to deploy to Afghanistan.”
@michellemalkin Can we just hang that POS already?!
— Chisohaibindowah (@RDW_Falls_Short) July 25, 2013
@michellemalkin @KDHcrime Sounds like "Work Place Violence" to me! lol Thats what our government thinks!
— DemsRCrookedAF (@DubsterCali) July 25, 2013
@michellemalkin Wow! Some Workplace Violence that is! @KDHcrime
— Raphael Gluck (@einfal) July 25, 2013
Has this ever happened before in the history of #WorkplaceViolence? @michellemalkin @KDHcrime
— Chip (@cyamas) July 25, 2013
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