BOMBING AT BOSTON MARATHON-GRAPHIC PHOTOS

[HairOfTheDog]

I agree that his older brother probably DID influence him but even though I view him as a kid he is a grown man capable of knowing right from wrong & he has the ability to make his own decisions.

I feel much the same. Dzhokhar was a fully grown college student, not dependent on his brother, and reaping the benefits of American life when HE chose to join his older brother in terrorizing and killing innocent unsuspecting people and maiming a bunch of others. Blaming the dead older brother for his own actions isn't gonna save his neck, I hope.

The first couple of trial days were very emotional. The judge denied the Defense's motion to suppress photos of killed and injured victims from being shown to the jury. The prosecution called victims to the stand and photos were shown, as evidence.

The judge also denied the Defense's motion to either have the prosecution provide the entire boat (in which the defendant was holed up when he was captured) or bar it from being shown to jury. Photos of the boat wall upon which the defendant scrawled his confession were shown to the jury.



The note ^ -- scrawled with a marker on the interior wall of the cabin -- claims the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims "collateral damage" in the same way Muslims have been in the American-led wars. "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims," Tsarnaev wrote.

Remember how that expert legal eagle of American crime, Cynical Ninja, argued so vigorously that the boat note was false evidence planted as part of a conspiracy to bolster the case against the suspect? Shockingly, that was a load of bullshit. The handwriting is that of the defendant and the fact that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote that note is uncontested by the defense.