Posted on 02/26/2015 6:49:37 AM PST by 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.
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The defense is right. He should be released; in Southey, Quincy or Waltham. His family should post a deposit to cover the clean-up costs.
This piece of crap needs to be given the treatment that IS gives Christians.
Maybe somebody should point out to his attorney that “minorities” are more than likely to view his client as a deadbeat white guy who should get what’s coming to him, and not as another minority.
The Mossad! The Mossad is to blame! Them wily Jooz always manage to frame an innocent Muslim! It was all done to discredit Obama’s righteous anger against Netanyahu!
Those vile brain-dead protesters remind me of the vile brain-dead Sandy Hook Truthers (a couple of whom infest FR).
If they released him into Charlestown, there would not be anything left of him to clean up.
Terrorists should never be taken alive. This story is the reason.
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