Charles Ware is a renowned trial attorney and award-winning best-selling author of several non-fiction books. He is the senior managing partner of the national general practice law firm, Charles Jerome Ware, PA, Attorneys & Counsellors, headquartered in Columbia, Howard County, Maryland: www.charlesjeromeware.com, (410) 730-5016, (410) 720-6129.
Fort Hood, Texas massacre defendant Maj. Nidal Hasan's so-called "repugnant defense" is in theory and practice no defense at all. Nidal is desperately seeking the death penalty so that, presumeably, he can obtain martyr status among his terrorist colleagues.
However, Hasan's' defense attorneys are correct in their efforts to withdraw their legal representation of him as "standby counsel". Defense attorneys should not be made to assist a client in essentially committing suicide using the judicial system, as the judge in Hasan's case is doing.
These defense attorneys are truly in a problematic ethical dilemma.
Hasan is accused of shooting 45 people, killing 13 and wounding 32 of them in November 2009.
[CNN.com/8-8-2013/"Not Allowed To Drop Out, Nidal Hasan defense Team In ' Morally Repugnant' Spot"; news.findlaw.com/apsnews/8-9-2013/" Hasan's lawyers To Appeal Their Ordered Duties" ]
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