Posted on 04/30/2013 5:01:44 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
The defense team representing the Boston Marathon bombing suspect got a major boost Monday with the addition of Judy Clarke, a San Diego lawyer who has won life sentences instead of the death penalty for several high-profile clients, including the Unabomber and the gunman in the rampage that injured former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Clarke's appointment was approved Monday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler.
The judge denied, at least for now, a request from Miriam Conrad, the public defender of 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to appoint a second death penalty lawyer, David Bruck, a professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law.
Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction during the April 15 marathon. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured when two bombs exploded near the finish line.
The suspect's lawyers could renew their motion to appoint another death penalty expert if he is indicted, the judge said.
Tsarnaev's brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, also a suspect in the bombing, died after a gun battle with police. Their mother has staunchly defended them, calling the bombing allegations against them lies.
Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's widow, is not a suspect in the bombings and has not been charged in the plot. However, FBI agents met with Russell at her parents' Rhode Island home Monday to collect a DNA sample, CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports.
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When he gets out of jail will he be “Palling Around” with Obama???
I’m guessing that the people who had their limbs blown off by this little shit and his freeloading terrorist brother will not have “defense teams” of their own to represent them.
If it goes anything like the Ft. Hood trial the defendant will die of old age before the proceedings get started.
I heard on Levin last night that that judge was accompanied by someone from Holder’s office.
These attacks are condoned and supported by Obama’s silence. He plotted with the muslim brotherhood for 3 years to overthrow mubarak. WHAT ELSE DID THEY TALK ABOUT... Why did the muslim brotherhood have white house permission and ok to review the FBI and CIA terror training manuals... and remove anything offensive to sensitive muslims? OBAMA IS ONE OF THEM AND SUPPORTING THEM.
He’s starting to realize his appeasement methods aren’t working, but he is still beholding to his brethren Muslims, so he has to continue to support them. Hopefully this will be his downfall.
>>> I heard on Levin last night that that judge was accompanied by someone from Holder’s office.
Which is something they wouldn’t do unless they were trying to hide something.
The first “person of interest” now turns out to be related to Bin-Laden, and his name appears on White House visitation rosters... and NOBODY has yet to explain how he sustained injuries. What are the odds if he wasn’t involved?
Even with every conceivable government handout these guys were on, I don’t think that would have afforded them the level of lifestyle they were living.
The Saudi was supporting them.
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