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First Do No Harm
Friday, December 26, 2014 Good evening: First, do no harm. The death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is scheduled to begin in federal court in Boston on Monday, January 5, 2015. This is the...
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Using Colorado Method of Jury Selection in Tsarnaev Death Penalty Trial
Friday, January 2, 2015 Good afternoon: Jury selection in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death penalty trial is scheduled to start in federal court in Boston on Monday morning. Today I want to introduce readers...
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Court of Appeals to hear oral arguments February 19th in Tsarnaev case
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments next Thursday, February 19th, to consider Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s request to move his death penalty trial out of Boston. United States...
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Opening Statements Today in Boston Marathon Bombing Case
Opening statements are not evidence and they are not arguments. They are statements by the lawyers to sketch out their respective cases for the jury. Think of them as guided tours of the witnesses to...
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Bill Richard’s unimaginable horror and a jury’s choice
We do not expect our children to die before we do. Yesterday afternoon, Bill Richard took the stand in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. He told the members of the jury what happened to him, his wife...
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Tsarnaevs: Why did they murder the innocent?
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note in pencil on an interior wall of a trailered boat in which sought refuge after the Watertown shootout. He attempted to justify killing innocent people with the following...
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Tsarnaev, prosecution blood lust and the death penalty
I am opposed to the death penalty in all cases, no matter how egregious. I always have been. I oppose the death penalty for many reasons. Today, I’m going to talk about one of them with which most...
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