Fort Hood suspect's court-assigned attorneys want off the case

Updated at 10:53 a.m. ET

FORT HOOD, Texas Defense attorneys helping the Fort Hood shooting suspect are demanding they be removed from the trial, saying the judge is forcing them to violate professional rules of conduct.

The lawyers have been helping Maj. Nidal Hasan represent himself during the trial. They asked to take over his defense on Wednesday, saying Hasan appeared to be trying to convince jurors to convict him and sentence him to death.

But Judge Col. Tara Osborn sided with Hasan on Thursday, saying it's clear the standby attorneys simply disagree with Hasan's defense strategy.

"Standby counsel may not agree with way case is proceeding, but Major Hasan determines his trial strategy," said Osborn, CBS News' Paula Reid reports from court. "This is nothing more than their disagreement with Major Hasan's trial strategy."

That prompted the standby attorneys to say they would appeal the judge's ruling. The judge recessed the trial.

Hasan has said little since the trial began Tuesday. He told jurors he was responsible for the attack that killed 13 people on the Texas military base. He's questioned only two of the dozen witnesses so far.