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TexasTowelie

(112,236 posts)
Sun Aug 6, 2017, 03:39 AM Aug 2017

Pulse Gunman's Widow to Claim PTSD in Partially Taxpayer-Funded Defense

Noor Salman, the widow of Pulse shooter Omar Mateen, will claim PTSD in her partially taxpayer-funded defense.

Federal prosecutors filed the request for Salman to undergo a mental evaluation this week, a request that a federal judge has granted. “The request {asked} that an expert give Salman an evaluation because she plans to use a mental disease or mental condition defense in court,” the Orlando Sentinel reported, citing court records.

Salman faces charges of providing material support to a terrorist and tampering with evidence for her role in her husband’s massacre at the Pulse Nightclub just over a year ago. The shooting, an anti-gay hate crime which claimed the lives of 49 people and left 68 more injured, remains the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11 and the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Previously released court records show that Salman had told investigators that Mateen had asked her how bad it would be “if a club got attacked,” about a week before the massacre. The same records also assert that Mateen had shown her a photo of the nightclub.

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ryanjent/pulse_gunman_s_widow_to_claim_ptsd_in_partially_taxpayer_funded_defense

Cross-posted in the Florida Group.

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Pulse Gunman's Widow to Claim PTSD in Partially Taxpayer-Funded Defense (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP
Wait, this means that just like anyone else, an attorney will be appointed for her? irisblue Aug 2017 #1
Yes and yes. TexasTowelie Aug 2017 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author irisblue Aug 2017 #3

irisblue

(32,980 posts)
1. Wait, this means that just like anyone else, an attorney will be appointed for her?
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 12:44 PM
Aug 2017

& the PTSD is from knowing that he was planning multiple murders and she did nothing?

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