Posted on 07/31/2020 1:42:39 PM PDT by Magnatron
A federal appeals court has vacated the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, based on the opinion that the judge in the case did not vet the jury properly with regard to possible bias stemming from pretrial publicity.
“A core promise of our criminal-justice system is that even the very worst among us deserves to be fairly tried and lawfully punished — a point forcefully made by the then-U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts during a presser at the trial's end," the three-judge panel wrote.
They added: "To help make that promise a reality, decisions long on our books say that a judge handling a case involving prejudicial pretrial publicity must elicit 'the kind and degree' of each prospective juror's 'exposure to the case or the parties,' if asked by counsel, see Patriarca v. United States, 402 F.2d 314, 318 (1st Cir. 1968) — only then can the judge reliably assess whether a potential juror can ignore that publicity, as the law requires. But despite a diligent effort, the judge here did not meet the standard set by Patriarca and its successors.”
Tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death in 2015 for carrying out the April 15, 2013 attack at the marathon finish line with his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a shootout with police after a manhunt.
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Maybe he will hang himself, like Epstein did.
Just a protest before it was so popular like now......
See what happens when you let lawyers play with these death sentences for 25 or 30 years. They come up with anythibg they can to keep from executing these clowns. This guy should have been dispatched within a year from when he was sentenced. His slimey lawyers have been at it for 5 years while the 3 people he killed and the others he maimed are not getting the same treatment. It is a travisty that this 3 judge panel stayed his execution. They gave no consideration to the 3 dead people and how they were treated unfairly by him. These 3 judges should be disbarred.
See what happens when you let lawyers play with these death sentences for 25 or 30 years. They come up with anythibg they can to keep from executing these clowns. This guy should have been dispatched within a year from when he was sentenced. His slimey lawyers have been at it for 5 years while the 3 people he killed and the others he maimed are not getting the same treatment. It is a travisty that this 3 judge panel stayed his execution. They gave no consideration to the 3 dead people and how they were treated unfairly by him. These 3 judges should be disbarred.
McVeigh targeted government employees. This guy didn’t. That’s the difference. This guy went after normal (disposable citizens) not the superior tier govt time-serving porn-surfing “elites”. The parasitic govt “workers” are worth more then the peons who create the wealth. Jeez. Get with the program.
Black robes make another bad decision.
So, set him free.
Justice will be served....
There is the Law and there is Justice; they seldom meet and if they did, Justice would walk away.
Apparently the Federal Death Penalty Statute requires both a conviction by the jury, and a finding of fact by the jury. It appears to a quick scan that Dzhokhar strategically did not challenge the impaneling of the jury at the guilt/innocence stage, so he gets a new trial on the jury questions regarding death.
The first part is just fine - not so much the second; being alone with basically nothing to do but look at the wall for how long? How old is he and therefore how long will he be in there? Next up that court will say he didn’t get a fair trial and toss the verdict and start all over again because if the jury was tainted for the death penalty then they were jaded in the conviction too and the whole thing will be tossed.
HANG the little muslim SOB—from the highest point in Boston Common!!!!
Do it after there are no more lockdowns, so all of Boston can see it! And televise it all around the world—including the muslim world!!!!
And make the little judgy-wudgies who unjustly “vacated his death sentence” stand in the front row!! PHOOEY to them!!!!
4. MIT cop was killed by then.Also a
transit officer who was injured later died, so 5, and many maimed.
By them
Just fry the SOB already!
If a minority actually commits a heinous crime before being executed via cop or lethal injection, is it still racism?
Of course he got death penalty as it was a federal offense.
If it were in a MA court the Commonwealth has no death penalty unless maybe there is one under certain circumstances.
Tsarnaev got a better break from the Federal Courts than General Flynn.
Including MA and VT.
I get it now.....
I’m from MA myself....don’t tell anybody.
I imagine that he’ll get to watch tv in his cell now for the rest of his life.
I wonder if they get HBO....
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