http://yahoonews.tumblr.com/TsarnaevTrial On Tuesday, the jury formally began deliberations in the first phase of the case, deciding whether Tsarnaev is guilty for his role in the deadly April 2013 attack on the Boston Marathon. Three people were killed and nearly 300 injured when two pressure-cooker bombs were detonated almost simultaneously near the marathon's finish line. But after more seven hours of deliberations, the jurors sent two questions to Judge George O'Toole suggesting they are closely parsing the legal language on the verdict form. They asked for the definition of "aiding and abetting"--whether they can be considered separately or if both have to be proven. (The judge explained it's a single legal concept.) Another question dealt with counts one, six and 11, which charge Tsarnaev with conspiracy. They asked if they have to answer unanimously on the the sub-questions of those charges. Jurors must check "yes" or "no" in saying Tsarnaev's actions were responsible each of the three individuals killed at the marathon as well as Sean Collier, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer shot and killed a few days after the attacks. In court, prosecutors introduced into evidence a video showing Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, running up to Collier's car, but they admitted they did not know who actually killed the officer. The judge told the jury they have to answer all the questions on the form and added that it has to be unanimous. Jurors began their second day of deliberations just after 9am on Wednesday. In closing arguments Monday, government prosecutors painted Tsarnaev as a radicalized terrorist who lived a "double life"--appearing as a normal college student to his friends but plotting death and destruction to "punish" America. “This was a cold, calculated terrorist act,” prosecutor Aloke Chakravarty said in describing the attacks. “It was bloodthirsty." Tsarnaev, 21, is not disputing he participated in the attack. In closing arguments Monday, Judy Clarke, Tsarnaev's attorney, reiterated what she had admitted on the first day of the trial: Her client did it. But she also sought to cast him as a troubled "adolescent" who was under the sway of his violent older brother. "There is no excuse. No one is trying to make one," Clarke said. "We don’t deny that Dzhokhar that fully participated in the events. But if not for Tamerlan it wouldn’t have happened." But in a rebuttal, William Weinreb, the assistant U.S. attorney in Boston, accused Tsarnaev of trying to escape responsibility for his role in the bombings. "The defendant might be guilty but his brother is more guilty," Weinreb told the jury. "That is not a defense." There is little doubt that Tsarnaev will be found guilty. But how quickly that decision comes could offer a hint of how the jury is feeling about the government's case as it heads into the more crucial penalty phase of the trial, in which they will determine whether Tsarnaev receives a life sentence without parole or the death penalty for his role in the attacks. Tsarnaev faces 30 different charges related to the 2013 attacks. Seventeen of the charges carry the threat of the death penalty. Jurors are going through a 32-page verdict form, which includes multiple questions for each of the 30 counts.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150408 The jury convicted Tsarnaev on all charges, ranging from carjacking to using a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death. Tsarnaev was found guilty in the deaths of Krystle Campbell, Lingzi Lu and 8-year-old Martin Richard during the bombings as well as for the death MIT police officer Sean Collier during a shootout that ensued after the bombings. Seventeen of the 30 counts can carry the death penalty.
I'd rather see him live and see the peoples who's lives he changed forever turn around and make a positive out of his(others) negative.
