The page opinion said long-standing court decisions require a judge handling a high profile case to let defense lawyers ask prospective jurors extensive questions about the kind and degree of their exposure to media coverage. As a result of the ruling, Tsarnaev must be given a new sentencing hearing, although his conviction stands.
A spokeswoman for Boston's U. Attorney, Andrew Lelling, said the office is reviewing the decision and will have more to say "in the coming days and weeks. But they said he was easily manipulated by his brother, whom they called the mastermind. Tsarnaev sat impassively in the courtroom as survivors of the bombing took their turns in the witness box only a few feet away, describing losses of limbs and the continuing pain from shrapnel that was packed inside the pressure cooker bombs.
But it's pain that deserves to be told. Look, we're not going to find out any answers by doing this, but the fact is, in the days after this, there were a lot of people that we know, ourselves included, that felt isolated, felt pain by knowing that someone they had counted on did this.
You know, we're both Bostonians as well and now you're stuck in the middle between wondering, can I even be a part of this community that's rallying behind this? Do I feel guilt in a way? On people who believe Dzhokhar's classmates protected him or helped make him a terrorist. Kanno-Youngs: "I think that there's this default narrative, in a way, that goes with a terrorist - that they were a sociopath, that they had signs before this.
And I know it's hard for people to hear, but this is the hard truth in a way, the fact is there were no red flags. There was nothing.
Hayes: "Everyone wants there to be a pattern. Everyone wants to be able to sort of write it up and quantify it and say 'this is what makes someone a terrorist. Kanno-Youngs: "The film, I think, is about what happens when you task people with those questions: Why did this man do this? How did he become a terrorist? How are we supposed to know that? It's not just the fact that we feel this pain because we knew someone that was involved.
We're also from Boston. You were thinking of going to the finish line that day. Kanno-Youngs: "I was around the corner, and I started to see people running the opposite direction as I was going towards the finish line. And I remember seeing a couple people crying. I remember seeing one person sprinting past. While Mr Trump supported executions during his time in office, President Joe Biden has said he will seek to end the death penalty.
In its petition, Justice Department lawyers called Tsarnaev's case "one of the most important terrorism prosecutions in our nation's history". The Supreme Court very rarely hears cases it's asked to review. However, justices agreed to hear oral arguments and decide by June next year whether to reinstate the original death sentence or uphold the appeal court's decision to ask a lower court to reconsider the sentencing.
Tsarnaev will spend the rest of his life in jail regardless of the Supreme Court's judgement. Who is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev? Rolling Stone defends Boston cover. Death sentence for Boston bomber.
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