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Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence up in air as court orders juror bias probe
CBS Boston ^ | 22 March 2024 | WBZ News

Posted on 08/16/2024 6:59:49 AM PDT by COBOL2Java

BOSTON - A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's case to be returned to a lower court to probe claims of juror bias and determine whether his death sentence should stand.

Tsarnaev's death sentence holds for now

The ruling from the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals keeps intact Tsarnaev's death sentence for now. But the judges found that further investigation is needed to determine whether two jurors should have been stricken for biases.

If the lower court's investigation reveals either person should have been disqualified, the court should vacate Tsarnaev's death sentence and hold a new penalty-phase trial to determine whether he should sentenced to death, the court said.

"And even then, we once again emphasize that the only question in any such proceeding will be whether Tsarnaev will face execution; regardless of the outcome, he will spend the rest of his life in prison," the court said.

The Boston-based appeals court issued its ruling more than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the sentence imposed on 30-year-old Tsarnaev for his role in the bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds near the marathon's finish line in 2013.

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Article is from March, but I was wondering what's going on with that terrorist SOB. Thought he was already room temperature.
1 posted on 08/16/2024 6:59:49 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
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To: COBOL2Java

Why is this POS still breathing?


2 posted on 08/16/2024 7:04:27 AM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: COBOL2Java

Two jurors with a “bias?” How does that affect anything?

Everyone has a bias. You get a jury together to hash out everything with facts and everyone agrees, in the end.

Bias no longer matters, then


3 posted on 08/16/2024 7:06:29 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: COBOL2Java

They are looking for an excuse to spring him, not just commute the death sentence.


4 posted on 08/16/2024 7:15:09 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ConservativeMind
Two jurors with a “bias?” How does that affect anything?

The bastard's got some pretty good lawyers, no doubt. Probably financed by his Imam.

5 posted on 08/16/2024 7:15:44 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (The country bounces along like Custer on the way to Little Big Horn, thanks to Dear Leader)
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To: Pox

Agreed. Should have been worm food shortly after the sentence was made.


6 posted on 08/16/2024 7:27:29 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: Pox

When there’s overwhelming evidence, there should be ONE appeal. If that appeal is lost then the sentence should be carried out within a few days. Our legal/justice system has become nothing so much as a “road to riches” for the legal class. Too many lawyers and not enough legitimate legal work available for even a portion of them produces a system corrupted by greed.


7 posted on 08/16/2024 7:27:37 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: COBOL2Java

Kaleed Sheikh Mohammed is still alive and is a 5 star guest of Uncle Sam down in Gitmo, 23 years after he killed 3000 Americans

How’s that for “justice?”


8 posted on 08/16/2024 7:34:47 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: COBOL2Java

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be served his meals from a pressure cooker that may or may not detonate, until one finally does.


9 posted on 08/16/2024 7:44:41 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: COBOL2Java

The piece of crap should be executed and then buried along with copies of rolling stone magazine with his picture on the cover and the love letters he got from adoring women.


10 posted on 08/16/2024 7:57:05 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: COBOL2Java

How about a BIAS assessment for the Trump Prosecutions, in NY, regarding the Prosecutors, the Judges, and THE JURIES?


11 posted on 08/16/2024 8:03:41 AM PDT by traditional2 ("Is it them, again, Yogi?")
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To: Salman

Absolutely.

As for death sentences, look how fast they got rid of Timothy McVeigh and compare it with the several other Muslim-terrorist federal death sentence prisoners still lounging around.


12 posted on 08/16/2024 8:08:40 AM PDT by livius
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To: COBOL2Java

More likely you and I and all the other taxpayers are paying the lawyers—and to feed and house him of course.


13 posted on 08/16/2024 8:10:35 AM PDT by Buchal ("Two wings of the same bird of prey . . .")
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To: ConservativeMind

Two, that’s nothing, how about twelve?!


14 posted on 08/16/2024 8:13:10 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: COBOL2Java

Speed bump, the brother, was killed that night.

This guy was caught and tried.

Was the jury biased? In Boston? Absolutely.


15 posted on 08/16/2024 8:25:03 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“Everyone has a bias.”

I have a bias against IEDs no matter who builds them and sets them off.


16 posted on 08/16/2024 8:35:34 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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