A military judge delayed a hearing for Maj. Nidal Hasan, the suspect accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, because he was wearing a beard in violation of military grooming rules, CNN reports.
The judge “delayed pre-trial motions until the near future, when either a closed circuit feed can be set up for the accused to watch the hearings from outside the court room or the accused complies with court order to appear with proper military grooming standards,” the Army said in a news release.
A report by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs last year concluded that the November 2009 shooting could have been prevented if the military had recognized the signs that Hasan was becoming radicalized.
