Comments 0. Top Stories. Expert at Rittenhouse trial zeroes in on just a few minutes 2 hours ago. Program to kill Grand Canyon bison nets 4 animals, criticism 41 minutes ago. Missing Hawaii girl's adoptive parents arrested and charged with murder Nov 11, AM. Nov 10, AM. ABC News Live. The filing came as a friend of Tsarnaev's admitted in court that he suspected that Tsarnaev was involved in the marathon bombings when he went to Tsarnaev's dorm room a few days after the attack.
The man, Dias Kadyrbayev, 20, is accused of removing a laptop and a backpack bearing residue of fireworks after Tsarnaev allegedly sent him a text message asking him to go to the dorm room and "take what's there.
Kadyrbayev, who is from Kazakhstan, testified during a hearing on his lawyers' motion to suppress his statements to investigators. They say he doesn't speak good enough English to have understood his rights or the importance of the documents he was signing last year under interrogation.
Kadyrbayev testified that he was extremely intimidated when local and federal law enforcement agents raided his apartment building on April 19, , handcuffed him and bundled him into the back of a car, The Associated Press reported. District Judge Douglas Woodlock didn't rule on the motion to suppress, saying he would allow prosecutors and Kadyrbayev's lawyer to submit written briefs and make oral arguments in August.
IE 11 is not supported. Polling indicated that most Bostonians preferred life imprisonment for Tsarnaev over a death sentence; the requirement that jurors be open to applying the death penalty probably narrowed the jury pool significantly. Some potential jurors appeared to soft-pedal their opposition to capital punishment. Juror No. The prosecutor, Steve Mellin, pressed him to give an example of someone who ought to be put to death for his crimes. The juror suggested Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav dictator.
The interview I remember best was with Juror No. They did it by their actions—not coming to work, stealing, whatever. She added that, ever since being promoted to manager, she had been playing the lottery in hopes of retiring. I feel the same way every time I come out of the voting booth.
When she talked about the trust that the jury system places in ordinary people, I thought I heard her choke up—but all I could see was the back of her head, so maybe that was my own emotional reaction. Yet the cavalier way in which she talked about her willingness to vote to put someone to death—the ease with which she shifted the burden of that decision onto the person she would condemn—belied her humble words about civic duty. She became the jury forewoman: a supervisor after all.
The appeal showed that, in her interview, Juror No. Before the trial began, the defense brought this information to the judge, along with social-media posts by another juror, No.
The winter of broke all sorts of weather records in Boston. Roofs collapsed under the weight of accumulated snow and ice, killing people. Street plows created giant snowbanks that turned sidewalks into tunnels, through which people moved in single file.
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