Posted on 04/22/2013 3:13:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A top defense attorney says the goal of any lawyer representing the Boston Marathon bombing suspect won't be to get him off, but simply to save his life. "There doesn't seem to be a lot of questions as to factual guilt, at least from what you read in the newspaper and has been all over the TV," Thomas Anthony Durkin, a former United States Attorney whose work has included defending an associate of the 9/11 terrorists, told The Luke Burbank Show.
Federal prosecutors charged bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, in his hospital room Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill - a crime that carries a possible death sentence.
Durkin said as soon as an attorney is appointed, they'll likely start working on coming up with "mitigation factors" to convince a federal judge to deny the death penalty.
"He's young, that's a factor. He could very well be influenced by an older brother, which would be another factor. You know he's had an otherwise exemplary life," Durkin said...
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He deserves the same sentence he passed on four other human beings. Nothing more - nothing less.
Well, of course it is. So we can apply the pain in just a little different way. Gopher it!!
The delay in reading him Miranda Rights was aimed at sparing him the death penalty. How Nice. /s
Wow, no one should ever hire this person as a defense attorney. The government doesn't even have to prove their case in court? Law enforcement has been wrong before with more evidence than this.
Sorry, but he’s a lawyer. Thats his job. What would you prefer he say?
How about, "I cannot, in good conscious, take this case."
Were this case to be tried in a MA state court, your observation is a given. Death penalty would not be an issue. The 'weapon of mass destruction' charges, however, are federal, and the case is to be tried in Federal Court. That puts a possible death sentence on the table, and is what has this attorney's panties in a bunch...
the infowarrior
So you don’t think he’s entitled to legal representation?
except that Holder does not want a death penalty trial on his record....
We don't always get what we want in life. Not even him...
the infowarrior
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