Am I the only one depressed because tumblr isn't the same anymore? 2013 everyone was on here and there were so many blogs on jahar and other cases that i was interested in too. Now it's like cricket noises here on tumblr. Everyone's gone and even if it got active again it's not the same anymore :(
Yeah, itâs pretty sad out here. Wait on the retrial tho! Itâll be lit again. Lol
I miss it too. No one I know was really into it so tumblr was my only connection to like-minded people. And people who were not like-minded! The discussions were great.
Two New York federal public defenders have joined Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaevâs taxpayer funded legal team, records show.
Two New York federal public defenders have joined Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaevâs taxpayer-funded legal team, records show.
The lawyers, Mia Eisner-Grynberg and Anthony Paul OâRourke, filed appearances Thursday on behalf of Tsarnaev with the First US Circuit Court of Appeals, where the confessed bomber is challenging his death sentence.
Eisner-Grynberg is an assistant federal defender in the Eastern District of New York and worked previously at the Legal Aid Society in the Bronx, according to her biography on the Federal Defenders of New York website.
A graduate of New York University School of Law, she served as senior articles editor of the Review of Law & Social Change while enrolled at NYU, the biography says.
OâRourke is a regular contributor to the Federal Defenders of New York Blog. His recent articles have touched on a number of topics, including the Armed Career Criminal Act.
Tsarnaev, 25, is currently imprisoned at a federal supermax facility in Colorado.
He was convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the April 15, 2013, bombings that killed three people and wounded hundreds more. Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, also killed an MIT police officer while they were on the run.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a confrontation with police in Watertown days after the blasts.
At least six attorneys are currently handling Dzhokhar Tsarnaevâs appeal, according to court records. The First Circuit recently approved a request from Tsarnaevâs team to file an oversized appellate brief totaling approximately 475 pages.
In granting the request, Judge Juan R. Torruella ordered that the brief âas filed must contain a detailed table of contents allowing the reader to tell precisely what arguments are being made and exactly where in the brief each argument is made,â filings show.
Oral arguments in the closely watched appeal havenât been scheduled.
In case y'all didnât know this is literally exactly what the bible says
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. Romans 8:26
The request from Tsarnaev'sâs legal team was filed Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, where the brief challenging hi
Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are asking a federal appeals court to let them submit an oversized legal brief totaling roughly 475 pages in their bid to save the admitted killer from the death penalty.
The request from Tsarnaev'sâs legal team was filed Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, where the brief challenging his death sentence is due by Dec. 20. Attorneys for Tsarnaev, 25, cited the complexity of the case in seeking permission to submit a longer filing than usually permitted.
âCounsel recognize that this Court has a heavy caseload,â said the motion signed by one of Tsarnaevâs appellate lawyers, federal public defender Deirdre D. von Dornum. âCounsel are continuing to try to reduce the opening briefâs size as much as possible. The requested length, however, reflects the number, complexity, novelty, and importance of the appellate issues presented by this extraordinary case.â
The stakes are high, the filing said.
âThis direct appeal represents Mr. Tsarnaevâs only guaranteed opportunity for appellate review of errors that he contends led to his being wrongly condemned to die,â the motion said.
The filing said Tsarnaevâs lawyers are still editing the brief, and they âanticipate it will raise 15 separate claims for relief, many of which are issues of first impression in this Circuit. Several of these claims, including those pertaining to denial of a change of venue and errors concerning jury selection, necessitate extensive factual discussion. For example, Tsarnaevâs venue claim requires analysis not only of the pretrial publicity that surrounded this case but also of the voir dire of 1,357 prospective jurors.â
The filing cited prior federal death penalty cases where appellate lawyers for the defendants submitting opening briefs ranging in length from 296 to 549 pages. Prosecutors take no position on the request from Tsarnaevâs attorneys to file a lengthy brief, the filing said.
Tsarnaev was convicted in 2015 for his role in the April 2013 bombings, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. He and his older brother, Tamerlan, also killed an MIT police officer while they were on the run.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a confrontation with police in Watertown days after the blasts. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death after his conviction. Heâs currently being held in a supermax prison in Colorado.
Appellate lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have lost their bid to make public the sensitive screening questionnaires of
Dzhokhar Tsarnaevâs appellate lawyers have lost their bid to make public the sensitive screening questionnaires of 1,355 residents who were summonsed as prospective jurors for the Boston Marathon bomberâs 2015 terrorism trial, but not picked to serve.
U.S. District Court Judge George A. OâToole Jr., who presided over the six-month proceedings that culminated with the former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student being condemned to death, ruled this afternoon he refuses to unseal what he said are 38,000 pages of 140,000 answers handwritten by ordinary citizens sent home with the belief their anonymity and honesty would be protected.
âProtecting jurorsâ legitimate privacy interests strengthens the justice system,â OâToole wrote in his decision. âA prospective juror summoned for service who is aware that intimate and identifiable information about former jurors has been spread online and in the press might expectedly be reluctant to be candid when asked in voir dire to provide personal information. This sort of chilling effect would implicate â and perhaps jeopardize â a future defendantâs Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial.â
In addition to any biases they held toward Tsarnaev, 25, or how terrorists should be dealt with in general, prospective jurors were required to disclose any mental-health or addiction issues they or their family members had experienced.
Tsarnaevâs legal team still has access to the questionnaires. However, even as an alternative to make their contents partially public, OâToole determined it would be âimpracticalâ for the court to individually study and redact the information since each packet is 28 pages long and contains 101 questions.
âThe defendant is not restricted in the scope or content of his arguments on appeal on the basis of the sealed materials,â OâToole said.
In a split decision, OâToole said he will allow the questionnaires of the 18 seated jurors to be made public provided theyâre carefully redacted to omit such things as dates of birth, addresses, occupations, residences of children and siblings, and anything a juror flagged as âprivate.â
âThe seated jurorsâ privacy interests are diminished at this stage in the proceedings,â OâToole said, âand with that diminution, the risk of chilling the candor and participation of future jurors.â
With the questionnaire debate resolved, Tsarnaevâs legal team has two weeks to file their opening brief in support of vacating his death sentence and remanding his case for a new trial, per order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.
