Seattle, WA – An appeals court has upheld the conviction of Jewish Federation gunman Naveed Haq, who claimed his civil rights were violated during his trial.
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On July 27, 2006, Haq walked into the Jewish Federation offices in Belltown with two pistols in a laptop bag, and demanded to see the center’s manager.
When the manager came out to meet Haq, he began shooting, killing one woman and wounding five others. Haq called 911, reported he had hostages, and told a 911 operator he wanted to talk to the media to “make a point” about US foreign policy in Iraq and Israel. He surrendered to police after they told him they couldn’t put him on CNN.
aq claimed that prosecutors improperly used recordings of incriminating jail phone calls during his trial, in which Haq told his mother ”I did the right thing,” “I got the Jews” and “I’m proud of what I did,” throwing some water on his attorneys’ claims that he was legally insane and unable to make the distinction between right and wrong.
Today, a state appeals court rejected Haq’s claim, noting that Haq and his relatives knew their jailhouse conversations were being recorded, and that inmates have a “reduced expectation of privacy.” The appeal decision also includes this awesome quote explaining why the court rejected Haq’s claim that it was up to prosecutors to prove he wasn’t crazy: “The law presumes a man sane and possessed of his reasoning faculties until the contrary is proved.”
Fry this guy.
The justice system is working. Good.
To #2 - How was the justice system working? This violent, soicopathic individual was eligible for, and should have received the death penalty for his heinous, hate crime.
I remember this story like it was yesterday, since I live here in Washington State. What a nightmare for all of the people that he hurt, as well as for his family, who were moderate Muslims living here in my hometown, and were shocked & appalled by their son’s out of control behavior.
Can you imagine having such a son?!
Anyway, he’s kidding himself if he thinks he’s going to get away w\pretending to be “crazy”. Whatever! He knew exactly what he was doing!
He’s an embarrassment to decent Muslims everywhere, an embarrassment for our hometown & an embarrassment to gentiles in general! Him & his ilk need to realize they are a part of a VERY small faction w\in Islam, that the rest of the world thinks is completely nuts & unjustified for what they’re doing!
You don’t get to “plan” to kill people, tell your Mom you’re proud you killed & hurt Jews… but then turn around & say you’re crazy, and expect people to buy that! He’s just trying to play every loophole in our system… but it’s NOT going to work!
He disgusts me… I hope they throw the book at him!