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agchristie | 21:47 Tue 03rd Mar 2015 | News
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Finally due to get underway but will the accused receive a fair trial?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/03/boston-marathon-bombing-trial-dzhokhar-tsarnaev
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Perhaps he should be tried elsewhere - but personally as long as he gets his just desserts I'm not really bothered what happens to him.
09:13 Wed 04th Mar 2015
yeah I think so - [ fair trial ] why not ?
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PP,

Just reading the link in particular:-

///In the defence’s latest motion for a change of venue – its fourth – filed on Tuesday, Tsarnaev’s attorneys observed that 42 of the 75 qualified jurorsself-identified as having a connection with the events or people at issue in the case, and 23 of them stated in their questionnaires that in their opinion Tsarnaev is guilty.///

Should the Trial be outside Boston?
Jury selection is an art of its own
that doesnt have a british counterpart

They have a ghost jury to fill the original jury should the number drop down below the legal minimum and god know s what else

In Britain trials have been moved but it is not very common
(1973 Cambridge student riots were moved to Norwich I think )


The general feeling here is that juries arent that thick

[ they certainly arent as thick as some judges ]
After the Guildford non-bombers were finally acquitted after 16 y there followed prosecutions of various police for perjury
and Magistrate Bartells threw the cases out as he said they couldnt get a fair trial after 20 years

caused a few gasps and episodes of breath-holding

Clearly the law has changed since then or else we wouldnt be having all the historical rape gtrials
A much fairer trial than his innocent victims ever got.
If they know he's guilty how can it not be a fair trial? It's just down to sentencing now.
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Ummmm,

///If they know he's guilty how can it not be a fair trial? It's just down to sentencing now.///

The facts haven't been examined Ummmm. The jury has only been sworn in.

AOG,

///A much fairer trial than his innocent victims ever got.///

You won't get any dissenters there...
The facts might not have been examined but they are sure of his guilt.

When they examine the facts he may only get 100 years instead of 300.
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When they examine the facts he may only get 100 years instead of 300.///

He could face the death penalty.
I don't know which states have the death penalty. If Boston is one he probably will. He'll spend many years on death row waiting for his date.
Boston is a city in the state of Massachussetts.
Geography is not my strong point :-)
Massachusetts doesn't have the death penalty
Perhaps he should be tried elsewhere - but personally as long as he gets his just desserts I'm not really bothered what happens to him.
I can't see why not.
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Ichkeria,

///Massachusetts doesn't have the death penalty///


He faces 30 charges in the bombings and the fatal shooting days later of a police officer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seventeen of the charges carry the possibility of the death penalty.
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Naomi,


///Perhaps he should be tried elsewhere - but personally as long as he gets his just desserts I'm not really bothered what happens to him.///

I'm not sure how your reply ended up as BA as I hadn't chose one! Anyway, yes, I thought that this case would have been heard outside Boston. As for just desserts, he faces a lot of charges, his legal team will need to be top notch...

Massachussets was one of the first, if not the first, states to abolish the death penalty. This depends on whether the prosecution is a state one or a federal one. If the latter then the death penalty is a possibility but any execution would have to be carried out in a state which has the facilities to do so.
"There currently is no state death penalty in Massachusetts, life without the possibilty of parole being the only punishment for first-degree murder. The federal government prosecutes capital cases within Massachusetts, however.

http://www.nodp.org/ma/s1.html

But this is a federal case, and it looks as if the the federal prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/30/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-death-penalty_n_4694745.html
Yes sorry I had forgotten the difference between state and federal law

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