Hurdles before legal proceedings against U.S mass shooter. Malik

With the memories still grim post the mass shooting rampage at the Fort Hood army camp at Texas, United States, the man who turned his gun at twelve of his own mates now awaits tryst with law. Serving his time at a heavily fortified prison facility, Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan now awaits his fate at the abode of justice even as his family and the military prosecutors mull exhaustive legal proceedings against him. Taken injured post the mayhem, Malik now awaits the day when he is declared fit enough to face justice.

Military justice experts do contend that Malik could be in line for a death penalty in a military court martial unless the civilian prosecutors can substantiate his complicity in a major terror plot which would in turn necessitate his case from being moved to a Federal criminal court and be tried as per the U.S anti terrorism laws.

However, other veteran legal experts opine that the commencement of legal proceedings against Malik could be indefinitely delayed by periodic medical assessments as to whether he is mentally and physically capable to stand the rigors of a lengthy and painstaking trial and even if he pleads guilty and is pronounced the death sentence, the legacy of lengthy appeals process in the American military jurisprudence would mean that the execution itself would still have to wait.

Scott L. Silliman, a retired career JAG expert at the American Air Force and who now oversees the Duke University Law School’s Center on Ethics and National Security, was quoted as saying that the prosecutors presently are at no rush to mount legal proceedings against Malik and are now busy collating more facts and proof about his rampant shooting spree in addition to roping in enough witnesses to help nail him in court.

However, despite the inevitable procedural delays, the aggrieved relatives and friends of the deceased are looking out to the day, when upon exhaustive legal arguments he is pronounced the just verdict for the wanton and mindless mayhem that he engineered.

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