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Suspected Boston Bomber Receives All-Star Defense Team
Yahoo News (ABC) ^ | 4/25/2013 | RUSSELL GOLDMAN

Posted on 04/25/2013 6:41:17 AM PDT by South40

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev managed to say just one word to a federal judge when charges were filed against him in a makeshift courtroom held at the side of his hospital bed, "No."

No, he could not afford an attorney.

As a result, Tsarnaev, 19, who is facing the possibility of the death penalty for his alleged role in last week's terror attack, will be represented by one of the most experienced and well respected public defenders in the country, Miriam Conrad.

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1 posted on 04/25/2013 6:41:18 AM PDT by South40
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To: South40

Public defenders are usually not the best lawyers because the pay is low, compared to other attorney pay. Who is making the decision as to whom is representing him?


2 posted on 04/25/2013 6:44:28 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: South40

good question: who’s payign for all this?


3 posted on 04/25/2013 6:49:47 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Jonty30

I expected Gloria Allred.


4 posted on 04/25/2013 6:50:37 AM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: Jonty30

Two words. The Saudi’s!


5 posted on 04/25/2013 6:54:57 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek (He who dwells in thee shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadows of the Almighty Psalm 91:)
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To: South40

Let the circus begin!


6 posted on 04/25/2013 6:55:03 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: South40
Here goes the media and legal circus and more smoke and mirrors from the white hut.
7 posted on 04/25/2013 6:57:02 AM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: South40
My pick for a public defender, stutter and all


8 posted on 04/25/2013 6:57:30 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: South40

bee ess he can’t afford a lawyer, al quaida can


9 posted on 04/25/2013 6:57:35 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Jonty30

pay and quality of representation have nothing to do with one another. Experience is what counts. Public defenders have tons of experience are in court all the time and usually are doing the job because they love the work, not because they are in it for the spoils. You have shown your total ignorance with your assumption. If you are in trouble, a PD is just what you want


10 posted on 04/25/2013 6:59:37 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: South40

I wonder if she will try to appeal to the liberalism of the Massachusetts jurors by saying that he was driven to insanity by the “right wing.” That approach might also make her a national hero of the left.


11 posted on 04/25/2013 6:59:48 AM PDT by djpg
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To: camle
good question: who’s paying for all this?

Its out of "Obama's Stash" which he thoughtfully took from you! IOW TAXPAYERS!!!

12 posted on 04/25/2013 7:01:20 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: camle

“Who’s paying for all this”? You and me. Since he will be tried in federal Court, all the costs including the Public Defender will be paid by the U.S. Taxpayer.


13 posted on 04/25/2013 7:15:22 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: South40
Of course he is!! Nothing but the best that the stupid, idiotic, f&^king moronic US taxpaypers can buy!!

SO glad I am in the group!

14 posted on 04/25/2013 7:20:00 AM PDT by Fedupwithit (You gave him what he wanted. I gave him what he needed.)
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To: South40

Well respected by whom? Other islamists?


15 posted on 04/25/2013 7:29:05 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: South40

HEY! I thought we had a sequester on?


16 posted on 04/25/2013 7:29:54 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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To: Fedupwithit

Of course had the guy been shot and killed in the boat all this would be moot.


17 posted on 04/25/2013 7:30:01 AM PDT by xp38
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To: yldstrk

From that I have personally seen, criminal defense attorney’s that have the most experience usually start their career in a prosecutors office and then jump to criminal defense because of the BUCKS.

So, I disagree. They are in it for the spoils, not for some sort of altruistic motivations. Are some? Perhaps. But none that I have seen.


18 posted on 04/25/2013 7:30:03 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Jonty30

Well, there are public de*enders and there are public de*enders—by all accounts this in an excellent one,
and someone who is well-versed in what it takes to
“de*end” a terrorist, as she’s already done it, albeit an
unsuccess*ul one.
So here we start Phase One, the lengthy (believe me , it’ll
be lengthier than we can imagine now) preparation where every possible mitigation o* circumstances surrounding Dzhokar’s
respective “guilt” will be exploited: we already see, in broad outline, what the arguments will likely be: hapless victim o* his older brother’s evil designs against America.
A vulnerable kid brother who really knows nothing about
whatever global jihadist groups aided abetted and/or trained his brother in how to make a bomb and detonate it to do maximum damage.
Older brother is now conveniently dead,and younger brother
now conveniently and literally unable to speak and “de*end himsel*”, and you’ve got a per*ect mix *or a de*ense that already has a LOT going *or it, in the terms in which our existing judicial system operates.The de*ense team may already have assessed that getting their client a mere prison term is a slam dunk, so the trial may proceed apace.
Consider how much harder the de*ense o* Major Hassan and KSM will be, and consider that, *or that reason, neither o* them has even YET come to trial. Much easier to bring to trial the Shoe Bomber Reid, and Dzohkar, who can’t and may never be able to “speak” on his own behal*. And the album o* pictures we will be treated to as the weeks and months go by will ALWAYS include the one seen here: the innocent, sweet visage o* the kid wearing a red *lower on his graduation robe.


19 posted on 04/25/2013 7:31:54 AM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: South40

All this means if that they won’t be able to use inadequate defense as grounds for appeal. The evidence against him is overwhelming.


20 posted on 04/25/2013 7:35:54 AM PDT by 0.E.O
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