Marathon bombing suspect: Not enough minorities in jury pool

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[massmike]

Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect have asked a judge to dismiss the indictment against their client, saying there aren't enough minorities and younger people in the jury pool.

Lawyers filed a motion Thursday saying the selection process violated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehvz) constitutional right to have a jury that represents a "fair cross section of the community."

They say blacks, people under 30 and Boston residents were underrepresented in the group of potential jurors questioned by the judge.

The prospective jurors were chosen from a population of about 5 million in eastern Massachusetts.

Jury selection is nearing a close. Court officials say the trial could begin next week.

A federal appeals court hasn't yet ruled on a defense request to move the trial out of Massachusetts.

[House Atreides]

So the European-American Tsarnaev’s attorneys are concerned that there aren’t enough “minorities”? You can’t win with these people.

[knittnmom]

The jury should be entirely composed of marathon runners.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They go to great lengths to avoid jury duty.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"The jury should be entirely composed of marathon runners."

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[FlipWilson]

Quote: “Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect have asked a judge to dismiss the indictment against their client, saying there aren’t enough minorities and younger people in the jury pool.”

I think what she really means to say is that there are not enough Harvard, BC, BU, etc. professors on the jury. Without these in the mix she can’t possibly hope to raise the “they had it coming” defense.

[Pollster1]

Lawyers filed a motion Thursday saying the selection process violated Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehvz) constitutional right to have a jury that represents a "fair cross section of the community."

The Constitution that should matter (the real, written one, universally despised by liberals) only guarantees: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed . . ." There is nothing there about race, age, or anything else peripheral to a criminal trial.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

[PeteB570]

Should make it an all Muslim jury.

Time to put up or shut up.

We’ll see where loyalties lie.

[duffee]

Guilty, hang em high, and the lawyers too.

[MeshugeMikey]

so they want to move the trial to Dearbornistan maybe?

[massmike]

Guilty, hang em high, and the lawyers too.

Got enough rope for his airhead defenders,too?

[DickBrannigan]

ENOUGH!!!!

The “accused” should have been hanged a long time ago. His supporters are too stupid to be allowed to live to be able to vote or procreate.

[Steve_Seattle]

They’re clearly hoping to get a black on the jury whom they can convince that the bombings were really committed by George Bush and a secret cabal of Republicans.

[duffee]

Rope and street light poles are re-useable.

[a fool in paradise]

Are the out of state college students who register to vote in the presidential elections going to be around long enough to serve the full trial?

[a fool in paradise]

Drove over his own brother, threw bombs at the cops, but still “innocent”?

Pro-terrorist Libtard trufers in action.

[Koracan]

..there aren't enough minorities and younger people in the jury pool..

How would they know they were not younger or black or minorities.

Prospective Jurors standing in line::