03-09-2011, 11:16 AM
the Judge just reamed out this filthy swine and gave him 25 to life, which was the max he could sentence. may he die in misery in a jail cell.
(CNN) -- A New York television executive convicted of second-degree murder in his wife's beheading is expected to be sentenced Wednesday.
An upstate New York jury found Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan guilty in February after a three-week trial and an hour-long deliberation.
In February 2009, Hassan, who founded a TV network aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes, went to a police station in the Buffalo, New York, suburb of Orchard Park and told officers his wife was dead, police have said.
Aasiya Hassan had been decapitated and the long knife used by her husband had left marks on his office's tile floor, prosecutors said during opening arguments.
Hassan gave his own closing arguments. Earlier in the trial, he had dismissed his attorney, Jeremy Schwartz, who by trial's end was acting as his legal adviser.
According to prosecutors, Aasiya Hassan had filed for divorce less than a week before she died.
On the day she died, she agreed to take some of her husband's clothes to his office after he had moved out of their home. He had told her he would not be there, prosecutors said.
"The defendant viciously killed ... and desecrated her (Aasiya's) body because six days earlier she had dared to file for divorce. Dared to seek a better life for herself and the children," Assistant District Attorney Paul Bonanno said in the prosecution's opening statement.
(CNN) -- A New York television executive convicted of second-degree murder in his wife's beheading is expected to be sentenced Wednesday.
An upstate New York jury found Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan guilty in February after a three-week trial and an hour-long deliberation.
In February 2009, Hassan, who founded a TV network aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes, went to a police station in the Buffalo, New York, suburb of Orchard Park and told officers his wife was dead, police have said.
Aasiya Hassan had been decapitated and the long knife used by her husband had left marks on his office's tile floor, prosecutors said during opening arguments.
Hassan gave his own closing arguments. Earlier in the trial, he had dismissed his attorney, Jeremy Schwartz, who by trial's end was acting as his legal adviser.
According to prosecutors, Aasiya Hassan had filed for divorce less than a week before she died.
On the day she died, she agreed to take some of her husband's clothes to his office after he had moved out of their home. He had told her he would not be there, prosecutors said.
"The defendant viciously killed ... and desecrated her (Aasiya's) body because six days earlier she had dared to file for divorce. Dared to seek a better life for herself and the children," Assistant District Attorney Paul Bonanno said in the prosecution's opening statement.