- January 4, 2015
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In Boston, where on Monday due to begin trial Tsarnaeva Johar, the prosecution said it is ready for hearing.
The only survivor of the two Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev blamed for the explosion of two homemade bombs into the crowd at the finish line of the Boston Marathon April 15, 2013. With the explosion killed three people and wounded nearly three hundred.
At the hearing, the judge will begin on Monday, jury selection for the job. About 1,200 potential jurors summoned to the federal court in Boston.
Presiding Judge George O’Toole will select 12 of them major and six spare assessors to participate in the process, which will last from three to six months.
A few hours before the New Year’s lawyers Johar Tsarnaeva filed in the Court of Appeal of the First Federal District emergency request for a stay of the process of 21-year-old Chechen and transfer it from Boston to a different location.
On Saturday, the court refused their two votes to one, and the jury selection process in the Tsarnaeva begin on schedule.
Doubts about the impartiality
On Wednesday, Federal Judge George O’Toole once again rejected a request protection, and she laid the last hope for the appeal. The lawyers argued that among the inhabitants of the Eastern District of Massachusetts will not be able to find 18 people who will hear the case impartially Tsarnaeva.
According to the defense, the concept of “victims” in this case should be interpreted broadly. This should include not only the three people killed and 264 wounded, but all residents of Boston and its suburbs Cambridge and Watertown, spectators, their relatives and friends, as well as those who have provided care to the wounded.
Lawyers Tsarnaeva refers to the case Timothy McVeigh was a terrorist, who blew up in 1995, the federal office building in Oklahoma City. His process was transferred to Denver, where he was convicted and sentenced to death.
The analogy with the case of McVeigh hear constantly now.
Some commentators agree with protection. They remind us that while searching Tsarnaeva, disappeared for a few hours after a shootout with police in Watertown that killed his older brother Tamerlan, in Boston and the surrounding area was in fact declared a state of emergency. It has affected almost all the inhabitants who were advised not to go out.
The courts, however, rejected this argument, noting that in the Eastern District of Massachusetts is home to millions of people “of various nationalities, origin and life experiences,” among which it is possible to find enough jurors who can decide the fate of the accused mind.
It is noted that if the jury is usually taken from about a hundred candidates, in the case to court due Tsarnaeva 1200 citizens. They will have to fill out a detailed questionnaire, after which they will be interviewed individually by the parties. In connection with this selection of 12 jurors and six major replacement is delayed for a few weeks. The prosecution, in particular, will be given to candidates who are fundamentally opposed to the supreme measure.
Line Protection
In Massachusetts, there is no death penalty, but it is considered in federal Tsarnaeva jurisdiction where it is. On the other hand, the defense is hoping for what the jury will be recruited from the inhabitants of the liberal state, which conservatives have long dubbed the “People’s Republic of Massachusetts”.
The lawyers will balk at a difficult childhood and the defendant to prove that he acted on the instigation of his elder brother.
Protection tell the jury about the persecution, who are exposed to family Tsarnaevyh in Kyrgyzstan, where Tamerlane Johar and spent most of his life before you went to the US with his parents and two sisters.
As the AP news agency law professor Christopher Dearborn, thus protecting attempt to “humanize” the image Johar in hopes to arouse the jury at least a minimal sympathy for him.
Living in Cambridge psychologist and expert on terrorism Alice LoCicero, wrote the book “How to “good boys” made lethal terrorists, “said the AP that Johar was particularly influenced by his brother, because he was disoriented by a series of changes in my life in the last year before the terrorist attack.
In particular, left his home in Cambridge and moved to the dormitory of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, his parents went to Dagestan, the family was experiencing financial difficulties.
The defense also mentions a triple murder near Boston, which took place two years before the terrorist attack on the marathon and in which allegedly participated Tamerlane. The goal – to prove to the jury that Johar had reason to be afraid of his elder brother and his yield to pressure.
“One whole”
At the prosecutor’s office will have its arguments in the including a video that Johar leaves backpack with a bomb at the feet of the boy, who died a few minutes later as a result of the explosion. It will prove that the defendant himself was convinced jihadist rather than a tool in the hands of his brother.
The prosecution will recall that after the bloody Tcarnaev was captured in a boat, staged for the winter in the backyard in Watertown, power found on board inscriptions such as “The US government is killing our innocent people” and “We are Muslims – one, and if you do harm to one, you do harm to all”.
It is expected that in addition to investigators, forensic experts and victims give testimony at the trial classmates Tsarnaeva Kazakh Azamat Tazhayakov convicted for trying to hide in the summer of material evidence and hoping to soften a verdict and Steven Silva, recently admitted in keeping with a pistol shot down a number of which, according to the investigation, police shot and killed Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev three days after the Boston bombings.
Granted accused the team of lawyers free unlikely seriously looking forward to it justification and focus on trying to save his life.
Among them are such judicial star, Judy Clarke, who in the past represented bomber Ted Kaczynski, Eric Rudolph, a bomb exploded at the Olympic Park in Atlanta, and Jared Lafnera, 6 people shot dead and ranivshego Rep Gabrielle Giffords.
None of them had been sentenced to death.
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