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Defense attorney: Saving Boston Marathon bomber's life is goal
KIRO-FM Radio ^ | April 22, 2013 | Josh Kerns

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: boston; bostonmarathon; bostonmassacre; lawyers; terrortrials; tsarnaev
Yeah, except for those three dead and 140 wounded...
1 posted on 04/22/2013 3:13:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
F'ing bleeding heart lawyers.

He deserves the same sentence he passed on four other human beings. Nothing more - nothing less.

2 posted on 04/22/2013 3:17:53 PM PDT by grobdriver
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Saving Boston Marathon bomber's life MAKING A NAME FOR MYSELF is goal
3 posted on 04/22/2013 3:19:40 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, of course it is. So we can apply the pain in just a little different way. Gopher it!!


4 posted on 04/22/2013 3:20:54 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The delay in reading him Miranda Rights was aimed at sparing him the death penalty. How Nice. /s


5 posted on 04/22/2013 3:23:18 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (PRISON AT BENGHAZI?????)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"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

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.

6 posted on 04/22/2013 3:29:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
in Massachutes it's a given....they will never give ANY killer the death sentence
7 posted on 04/22/2013 3:38:09 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Defense attorney: Saving Boston Marathon bomber's life is goal...funny - those opposed to the death penalty always claim it is no more of a deterent to crime than life in prison - yet you never hear about people negotiating for the death penalty instead of life in prison......
8 posted on 04/22/2013 4:20:31 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: grobdriver

Sorry, but he’s a lawyer. Thats his job. What would you prefer he say?


9 posted on 04/22/2013 4:49:05 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: bigdaddy45
What would you prefer he say?

How about, "I cannot, in good conscious, take this case."

10 posted on 04/22/2013 5:09:07 PM PDT by grobdriver
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To: Nifster
in Massachutes it's a given....they will never give ANY killer the death sentence

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

11 posted on 04/22/2013 5:36:21 PM PDT by infowarrior
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To: grobdriver

So you don’t think he’s entitled to legal representation?


12 posted on 04/22/2013 6:20:28 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: infowarrior

except that Holder does not want a death penalty trial on his record....


13 posted on 04/22/2013 8:05:34 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster
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

14 posted on 04/22/2013 9:01:28 PM PDT by infowarrior
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