Posted on 12/28/2018 7:23:50 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
BOSTON (AP) Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs 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, Tsarnaevs 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 defenses inability to tell jurors about links between Tsarnaevs brother and an unsolved triple killing in 2011.
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His lawyers argue the trial court judges first fundamental error was denying the defenses 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Muslims in Boston called each other to offer assistance. These calls were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15.... Representatives from the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security called to offer support to Muslim communities......just in case THEY suffered backlash or threats. (more on FR).
BACKSTORY Immediately after the Boston bombing, then-Democrat Gov Deval Patrick, (in a move reminiscent of totalitarian regimes), ordered Massachusetts govt agencies to conceal the Muslim/Tsarnevs welfare haul from taxpayers.
But sources who saw 500 pages of welfare documents (requested by a state legislator) told News Center 5 that the entire Muslim/Chechnyan immigrants collected upwards of $100,00 tax dollars free and clear. MASS taxpayers financed the killing and maiming of their own friends and neighbors.
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MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS WERE UNKNOWINGLY FORCED TO FINANCE THE TSARNEV BROTHERS' DIRTY DEEDS BIGTIME ---Chechen immigrants--the bombers' parents----were eligible as legal, non-citizen residents who claimed "asylum" status and met the eligibility criteria.
Multiple state agencies, on orders from Democrat Gov Deval Patrick (Obama's choice for Biden VP), refused to comment on the bomber brothers' welfare haul.
<><> WRT Tamerlan receiving UI benefits, Labor dept spokesman Kevin Franck refused to comment....
<><> Univ of Mass-- Dartmouth spokesman Robert Connolly refused to comment on the financial aid app of 19 -year-old soph Dzhokhar. 'It is our position - and I believe the accepted position in higher education - that student records including academic records and financial records (including financial aid) cannot under federal law be released without a students consent.'
<><> The FCC would not discuss whether the suspected bombers had govt- paid Obamaphones.
<><> Cambridge housing officials would not comment on if the brothers had Section 8 rental subsidy offered by the HUD to low income households.
<><> Chechen immigrants--the bombers' parents--were legal, non-citizen residents who claimed "asylum" status and met the eligibility criteria for endless SS checks.
<><> In sum, while planning the bombing, the Chechneyan immigrants received every conceivable tax-paid public benefit available out there.
BTW, this is the mosque where the Tsarnaev's worshipped.
Yes. And that sight was the final straw for me. I vowed to get the hell out of this disgusting sewer of a state as soon as I can.
So there is a slim chance we can rid the world of this vermin.
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