But Jahar was failing academically and was likely to be kicked out of college. At the same time, Tamerlan was struggling to make ends meet and was soon to be evicted from his home. Reporter Sally Jacobs says it was a perfect storm. Around this time, prosecutors say, Jahar downloaded onto his laptop several radical Muslim publications that focused on Islamic jihad. He also allegedly downloaded instructions on how to make a pressure-cooker bomb. The language issue concerned only one of many counts included in the charges against Phillipos, and the jury ultimately found him not guilty of lying to investigators about having engaged in a discussion of whether to throw out the backpack.
The point of disagreement, and the exclusion of the relevant count by the jury, will ultimately have little or no impact on Phillipos's sentence.
But the detail raises an important question: Why did Phillipos and Tazhayakov face different charges in the first place? According to the prosecution, Phillipos and Tazhayakov were together every step of the way from the evening of April 18th to the morning of April 19th, and the plan was laid out in English, which all of them spoke.
If this is true, then why was Tazhayakov charged with the same crimes as Kadyrbayev, while Phillipos was not? One woman said that she had met Phillipos when he was at Rindge and Latin, and that he seemed like a good kid. Another caller said he should walk. After Phillipos was convicted, the Globe weighed in with an editorial calling for leniency for him; there was no mention of the other defendants. Phillipos, who was born in the United States his mother, who raised him alone, had come to America from Ethiopia , is not a Muslim.
The Toronto aunt of the two suspects accused in the bombing of the Boston Marathon said she wants proof her nephews were involved in the attack that killed three people and injured more than Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died overnight in a gun battle with police. A massive manhunt is underway in the Boston area to apprehend his brother, year-old Dzhokhar. Both are suspected of carrying out the bombing at the finish line of the prestigious marathon.
There are four children in the Tsarnaev family — two girls and two boys. Dzhokhar is the youngest child although Tamerlan was the favourite as the oldest boy, Maret said. The parents, along with Dzhokhar, applied for refugee status in the U. They were able to bring the rest of the family to the U. Tamerlan was an amateur boxer listed as a competitor in a National Golden Gloves competition in He was featured in an online photo essay about his boxing ambitions.
But the top of everyone's mind, in case you didn't hear me say at the top of the hour — this ruling does not mean Tsarnaev is going to be released. Daniel Medwed: Absolutely. He stands convicted of more than 20 convictions that will have life sentences. The only issue in play is whether the death sentence is appropriate.
And today, the First Circuit said he should get a new trial just on that issue of life versus death. Rath : And do we understand what was done wrong or whatever it was in the first trial? Why this should be retried? Medwed: Yes.
The appeals court cited some very specific issues. First, the panel — it was a panel of three judges — they identified a problem during jury selection. Specifically because of all the pretrial publicity in the case, the defense lawyers had asked for very specific questions during "voir dire" — that's the process of choosing jurors.
And the questions were what are called content-specific questions: 'Juror A: Have you heard about this case? What have you read about this case? The judge was worried about going into too much detail, too much depth about what the jurors had actually read. And today, the First Circuit said that was a problem. In a case like this, with so much pretrial publicity, you should really give defense lawyers a lot of rope to determine whether or not the jury might be prejudiced against the defendant.
And in doing so, the court relied on a precedent case from the First Circuit involving a mafia boss, Raymond Patriarca, who had a case involving lots of pretrial publicity as well. So it was that very specific issue. But the real issue, Arun, that triggered this reversal was that problem with questions during jury selection.
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