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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers want his death sentence tossed. Here’s what they’re arguing.
Boston.com ^ | 12/27/2018 | ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Posted on 12/28/2018 7:23:50 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s convictions or death sentence should be tossed because it was impossible for him to get a fair trial in the same city where the shrapnel-packed, pressure cooker bombs exploded, his lawyers told a federal appeals court on Thursday.

In a 500-page brief filed in the 1st U.S. District Court of Appeals, Tsarnaev’s legal team outlined a host of other problems with his 2015 trial, during which the defense admitted from the outset that he and his older brother carried out the attack. His appellate lawyers are also pointing to issues with jurors, certain testimony from surviving victims and the defense’s inability to tell jurors about links between Tsarnaev’s brother and an unsolved triple killing in 2011.

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His lawyers argue the trial court judge’s “first fundamental error” was denying the defense’s repeated requests to move the case out of a city that was “traumatized by the bombings, ordered to shelter in place during the manhunt, saturated by prejudicial publicity and united in the Boston Strong movement.”

“This case should not have been tried in Boston,” the attorneys wrote.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bombing; boston; marathon; tsarnaev
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I vote...Oh hell no.
1 posted on 12/28/2018 7:23:50 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Kill him, you pussies.


2 posted on 12/28/2018 7:25:02 AM PST by Lopeover (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Wasting a lot of time and oxygen on this POS, which could be better used elsewhere.


3 posted on 12/28/2018 7:26:45 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Ok, I can deal with that. Release him on the streets of Boston. Just announce it’s happening an hour or two ahead of time.


4 posted on 12/28/2018 7:26:50 AM PST by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: Lopeover

Kill him, you pussies.”””

And remove all the certification for all of those lawyers—and BAR them from EVER practicing law at any level for the rest of their lives.

Let them run a 7-11.


5 posted on 12/28/2018 7:26:55 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Lopeover
Kill him, you pussies.

I'm trusting that if they release this animal back on to the streets of Boston that justice will be quickly served -

WITH EXTREME PREDJUDICE!

6 posted on 12/28/2018 7:31:53 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty ('DEPLORABLE' Charter Member of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - and DAMN Proud of it!.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

It should be tossed because he didn’t get legal representation. His own lawyer declared him guilty.

His accuser? James Comey’s FBI, which we now know will go to incredibly extreme lengths to frame an innocent party.

IMO Dzohkar didn’t do it, and didn’t know anything about it.


7 posted on 12/28/2018 7:33:45 AM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I believe this guy should get a fair judgement, and he will. After he’s executed (if it ever happens) he will be judged just like the rest of us will after death.


8 posted on 12/28/2018 7:33:50 AM PST by redfreedom (.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
We're paying them, they’re milking us.
9 posted on 12/28/2018 7:34:38 AM PST by AU72
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To: TheZMan
I'd be ok with the idea of five minutes worth of head start.

Give him the huntig Gilligan treatment.


10 posted on 12/28/2018 7:35:08 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: thoughtomator

Why do you think he didn’t do it?


11 posted on 12/28/2018 7:37:59 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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In a 500-page brief

So his lawyers are getting paid by the page?

12 posted on 12/28/2018 7:38:49 AM PST by Michael.SF. (California: knowingly give someone aids: misdemeanor. Give them a straw, go to jail.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

There’s no evidence that he did it.


13 posted on 12/28/2018 7:40:45 AM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: BeauBo

didn’t taxpayers already pay a fortune to patch him back together?


14 posted on 12/28/2018 7:43:26 AM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: thoughtomator

Are you saying g the other brother did it, and that this guy was just along for the ride in the getaway car?


15 posted on 12/28/2018 7:46:07 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

He’s not dead yet?


16 posted on 12/28/2018 7:47:08 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

The usual appeal lawyer song and dance funded by the taxpayers.


17 posted on 12/28/2018 7:48:27 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: thoughtomator

Ample evidence was shown that Tsarnaev placed the pressure cookers at their locations, and the defense team itself admitted to it.


18 posted on 12/28/2018 7:49:29 AM PST by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party.)
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To: central_va
He’s not dead yet?


19 posted on 12/28/2018 7:49:35 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned about who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I don’t know for sure who did it, but if I were looking for suspects I’d first check out the guys who were carrying identical backpacks to the one that exploded.


20 posted on 12/28/2018 7:50:30 AM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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