Dinah Lord: Muslim Wife Beheader looks to cop an insanity plea while claiming his wife's estate?

Muslim Wife Beheader looks to cop an insanity plea while claiming his wife's estate?

I couldn't believe it when I saw this headline: Man accused of beheading wife appears for estate hearing.

The case of slain cable TV executive Aasiya Zubair Hassan spilled over into a second courtroom today as Erie County Surrogate Barbara Howe conducted a closed-court session on her estate and its ultimate disposition.

This is so wrong on SO many levels, I don't know where to begin.

First, Hassan beats, then beheads his wife in cold blood and now he is playing the justice system like a fiddle. His attorney has made the strategic decision to try and run out the clock to jam the prosecution's formulation of their defense strategy against the Islamic wife beheader. Mark your calendars, possums: The date for his trial has been tentatively set for January 19.

From the Buffalo News:(h/t Jeffrey Imm)

Muzzammil S. “Mo” Hassan, who is accused of beheading his wife, is expected to undergo psychiatric examinations that will determine whether his lawyers will be able to raise insanity issues at his upcoming trial.
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“During Friday’s brief court session, Colleen Curtin Gable, the chief homicide prosecutor in the case, complained to the judge about “repeated demands” of the Erie County District Attorney’s office as to how Harrington plans to defend Hassan.”

“Harrington, without showing his legal hand, told the judge and prosecutor he has been “working through some practical matters” in the case, which have delayed Hassan’s ‘evaluation’ by defense mental health experts.”

“After prosecutors receive the required pretrial notice on the defense strategy, they will be able to arrange for their own mental health professionals to examine the defendant — if insanity-linked issues are part of the defense strategy.”

“After Harrington said he is confident he can provide prosecutors with his defense strategy by mid-September the judge scheduled another session in the for Sept. 18. To give both sides enough time to prepare Franczyk has scheduled a tentative Jan. 19 start of jury selection in the murder trial.”

Read the details surrounding the brutal killing and ask yourself if he was insane or if he was just a cold, calculating, Muslim woman hater preserving his honor.

Oh for crying out loud, he tricked her into coming to the station, the kids were waiting out in the car...while he beat the living shi% out of her and then cut her head off. He showered in the office shower and had enough presence of mind to walk out of the murder scene and hand his 17 year old son $4900 in cash because "he'd probably need it". And they are already start to play the "history of psychiatric problems" card.

And get this, he's only being charged with murder in the second degree.

August 27, 2009 at 07:13 PM | Permalink