Adam H. Kerman
2021-10-12 17:52:12 UTC
I had forgotten why the 1st Circuit overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death
penalty. He's the younger brother in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Tsarnaev appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st
Circuit, which last year upheld his convictions and life
sentences but threw out Tsarnaev's death sentences. The court of
appeals ruled against the government on two separate grounds.
First, it held, the district court should have asked potential
jurors what media coverage they had seen or heard about
Tsarnaev's case. Second, it concluded, the district court should
not have excluded from the sentencing phase evidence that
Tamerlan was involved in a separate, unsolved triple murder in
Massachusetts in 2011. That evidence, the court of appeals
reasoned, was "highly probative of Tamerlan's ability to
influence" his brother.
The possibility that his older brother might have influenced him to
participate in an earlier triple homicide neither was charged with... was
a point in his favor?
https://amylhowe.com/2021/10/12/justices-to-consider-governments-appeal-to-reinstate-death-penalty-for-boston-marathon-bomber/
penalty. He's the younger brother in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Tsarnaev appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st
Circuit, which last year upheld his convictions and life
sentences but threw out Tsarnaev's death sentences. The court of
appeals ruled against the government on two separate grounds.
First, it held, the district court should have asked potential
jurors what media coverage they had seen or heard about
Tsarnaev's case. Second, it concluded, the district court should
not have excluded from the sentencing phase evidence that
Tamerlan was involved in a separate, unsolved triple murder in
Massachusetts in 2011. That evidence, the court of appeals
reasoned, was "highly probative of Tamerlan's ability to
influence" his brother.
The possibility that his older brother might have influenced him to
participate in an earlier triple homicide neither was charged with... was
a point in his favor?
https://amylhowe.com/2021/10/12/justices-to-consider-governments-appeal-to-reinstate-death-penalty-for-boston-marathon-bomber/