A top military appellate court has upheld the death sentence given to Nidal Hasan, a former Army officer who killed more than a dozen people in a mass shooting 14 years ago at one of the largest bases in the country.
defense s request to test other items. i can t imagine a judge in a civilian court not allowing that. you had the evidence. why not test it? without dna results pointing to a different suspect, hennis lawyers decided to offer an alternate explanation for the incriminating sperm. at the very end they threw out there the theory that tim hennis had consensual sex with mrs. east burn within a day or so of the homicides. when he said that, you could feel the love leave in that room. i mean, everybody went, i don t believe he said that. i mean, there are certain things you can do in front of a jury and there are certain things you can t. it would not have been how i would have done it. the 14-person court martial jury declared unanimously that timothy hennis was guilty of murdering katie east burn and her children. their next task would be to decide whether hennis deserved
rape took place. what is male dna doing under mrs. east burn s fingernails? it s not tim s. there s dna under the daughters finger nail and it s not hennis. underneath the fingernails, that s not timothy hennis. but what is that vaginal swab? to me male dna under the finger nail of a woman who is raped is pretty damaging evidence. who is it? the finger nail scrapings weren t enough for a full dna profile so the defense asked to test all the crime scene evidence that might point to a different perpetrator, including a blood-soaked towel. now, whoever had sex with her didn t necessarily kill her, but you can t argue that whoever cleaned up the blood didn t have something to do with it. let s find out what happened. in the military, if you need a test done, you have to ask a judge to make the army do it for you. the judge, though, denied the
this chemist got some blood and put it on a members only jacket, and then put some luminol on it, and it e glowed right there. but hennis on the other hand had no sign of blood. so richardson had turned the prosecution s evidence against them. and then lucille cook who swore she saw hennis at the atm. two days after the murder. lucille cook had made dozens and dozens of transactions around the time of the murder, and asked her if she could remember those, and of course, she could not. there was a gap of time between her transaction and the transaction used allegedly by tim hennis. it was 3 1/2 minutes. well, it does not seem like a lot, until you sit there and time it. we had the jury sit there and time it to see how long it was.
the dna results. the sperm in the vagina is the person who raped and slaughtered her and her children. and that is timothy hennis . when a scandal erupted at a state lab the dna evidence would be thrown into question. they were mixing up dna they were mixing up dna samples and putting an innocent guy in prison. and sometimes, i don t eat the way i should. so, i drink boost. boost high protein nutritional drink