Boston Marathon suspect may pin blame on brother (new link)
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Source: AP-Excite
By BRIDGET MURPHY and MICHELLE R. SMITH
BOSTON (AP) - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers may try to save him from the death penalty in the Boston Marathon bombing by arguing he fell under the murderous influence of his older brother, legal experts say.
The outlines of a possible defense came into focus this week when it was learned that Tsarnaev's attorneys are trying to get access to investigative records implicating the now-dead brother in a grisly triple slaying committed in 2011.
In court papers Monday, federal prosecutors acknowledged publicly for the first time that a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev told investigators that Tamerlan participated in the unsolved killings of three men who were found in a Waltham apartment with their throats slit, marijuana sprinkled over their bodies.
The younger Tsarnaev's lawyers argued in court papers that any evidence of Tamerlan's involvement is "mitigating information" that is critical as they prepare Dzhokhar's defense. They asked a judge to force prosecutors to turn over the records.
FULL story at link. No idea what happened to the original link. Here is another: http://news.yahoo.com/boston-marathon-suspect-may-pin-blame-brother-185847738.html
Read more: Boston Marathon suspect may pin blame on brother
This undated file photo, provided April 19, 2013, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Tsarnaev, who faces a potential death penalty, is fighting to get access to investigative records that implicate his dead older brother in a triple slaying in 2011. In a filing this week in federal court, prosecutors say they have alerted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that a friend alleges that Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan, participated in the killings. The friend, Ibragim Todashev was later shot to death in Florida while being questioned by authorities. The younger Tsarnaev's lawyers have argued that evidence about his brother's involvement in the triple killings provides "mitigating information" that is critical to his defense. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation, File)
JI7
(89,252 posts)let him live each day knowing that's all it is for him. his 21st birthday will be in prison, he will have decades more in prison. nothing else for him.
groundloop
(11,519 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)"You ran him over. The forensics are air tight. Any way you look at it you will never see freedom again. So let's not play games. Okay?"
He's a sociopath. Just like his murdering brother. Amazing. A sociopathic family!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Was it possibly an accident or definitely homicide? Do you know what the evidence on that is? I haven't followed this enough to know.
christx30
(6,241 posts)or not. If someone dies in the commission of a crime, the partner is held liable for the murder. If Jack and Ryan are robbing a store, and Jack gets shot by the clerk, Ryan is charged with the murder, because the robbery is the reason Jack is dead.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)And if so, isn't that a defense in the making?
I'm all for giving him some kind of chance. He is young and was probably led by his brother. Nothing we can do will bring back those killed but maybe we can salvage this kid. (Yeah, i know, call me a bleeding heart liberal!)
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)hero worship of a sibling is not a defense to criminal charges, AFAIK.
I idolized my older sister. Luckily for me, she was about as far from murderous as a human can be.
I oppose the death penalty, so I hope he gets life, if found guilty.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)the rest of your miserable life. And we'll be glad we don't have to look at your smirking mug ever again.
Justice
(7,188 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Dirty little murdering punks
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soundsgreat
(125 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014628820
and, like with the other thread, the "news" is no news at all. The fact that Todashev allegedly confessed that he and Tsarnaev committed the Waltham murder (just to being shot at seven times before signing the confession, one shot in the back of his head) has been known for months.
These alleged news is an obvious campaign to take influence in the ongoing Tsarnaev trial and covering the scandalous case of Ibragim Todashev. Brainwash alert.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)And "Brainwashing"?
There must be more to your outlook on this ongoing story...
soundsgreat
(125 posts)The concept of "innocent until proven guilty" seems to have been completely washed out of the brains of many posters here.
Don't you see that?
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)planting the bombs that killed people and shredded the bodies of so many, he chatted casually with college buddies about it before heading out on another spree with his older brother, he bragged about being the Marathon bomber to the car jack victim after they had killed a cop to get more weapons, then they had a shootout witnessed by many cops and people in a residential neighborhood, and finally the wounded suspect was captured hiding in a backyard.
Yes, it will take a court to lay out all of that evidence to prove he is guilty to some jury, but that murderer is hardy innocent.
CountAllVotes
(20,876 posts)Lying little SOB.
I hope he spends the rest of his life rotting away in JAIL!
demigoddess
(6,641 posts)with no running around making calls, making friends, giving interviews, writing a book or even having a tv. I hope for those maximum security prisons where you get to do nothing social. Some people actually like spending their lives in prison.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)?
(knowing how my day is going it could be right in front of my face but I don't see it)
soundsgreat
(125 posts)Amicus Curiae - whatever that means
http://de.scribd.com/doc/181877696/Doc-139-Amicus-Curiae-ACLU-in-support-of-vacating-the-SAMs-pdf