01-02-2015, 12:27 PM
THE TRIAL OF DZHOKHAR TSAERNEV
JURY SELECTION
1,200 potential jurors have been summoned. Jury selection is scheduled to being on Monday, January 5th.
LOCATION
The defense is pushing for a change of venue from Boston -- so far that's been denied.
CASE STATUS
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in this federal case; the defendant has pleaded not guilty to 30 counts surrounding the 2013 bombing that killed three, dismembered 16, and wounded 260. The defense has reportedly been pushing for a plea deal but no agreement has been reached.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY
Tsaernev's defense attorney is July Clarke. Ms. Clarke is famous for cutting deals that keep her clients off death row. At some point in the process, her clients — including Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber; Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber; and Jared L. Loughner, who killed six people in an assassination attempt on former Representative Gabrielle Giffords — pleaded guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison, with no chance of parole.
Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/us/bos....html?_r=0
JURY SELECTION
1,200 potential jurors have been summoned. Jury selection is scheduled to being on Monday, January 5th.
LOCATION
The defense is pushing for a change of venue from Boston -- so far that's been denied.
CASE STATUS
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in this federal case; the defendant has pleaded not guilty to 30 counts surrounding the 2013 bombing that killed three, dismembered 16, and wounded 260. The defense has reportedly been pushing for a plea deal but no agreement has been reached.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY
Tsaernev's defense attorney is July Clarke. Ms. Clarke is famous for cutting deals that keep her clients off death row. At some point in the process, her clients — including Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber; Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber; and Jared L. Loughner, who killed six people in an assassination attempt on former Representative Gabrielle Giffords — pleaded guilty in exchange for a sentence of life in prison, with no chance of parole.
Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/us/bos....html?_r=0