Tsarnaev pleads not guilty
Source: USA Today
BOSTON -- Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, appearing disheveled and fidgety, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 30 counts of using a weapon of mass destruction stemming from the Boston Marathon bombing.
Tsarnaev, 19, turned and looked repeatedly into the full-house crowd that assembled in federal court here as he entered not guiilty pleas to 30 counts stemming from the Boston Marathon bombing. He spoke in a Russian accent.
Tsarnaev was wearing a partially unbuttoned orange jumpsuit and a black t-shirt. He looked over his right shoulder as if to see who was there. Judge Marianne Bowler said that present were 30 victims of the bombing and family members.
He wore a cast on his left arm and hand and displayed a crooked smile to two sisters, both in Muslim garb, seated in the courtroom.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/10/tsarnaev-boston-marathon-bombing-hearing/2504681/
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Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)"Some of the supporters started chanting — “Justice for Dzhokhar’’ and “Give him his freedom back’’ — as the motorcade took Tsarnaev into the courthouse."
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/07/10/marathon-bombing-suspect-dzhohkar-tsarnaev-arrives-boston-federal-court-for-arraignment/IDlnqJkurvDNkpGmRTxQzI/story.html
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)And good riddance.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)
<- shouldn't be necessary but hey it's DU.
kurtzapril4
(1,353 posts)according to the fascist wing of DU.
penultimate
(1,110 posts)Is always an interesting twitter tag to search for. It really is mostly young girls who seem to support him because they find him cute. There are some who have what some might have more legitimate views on it. I might disagree with what they say, but at least it's not built on "he is soooo cute" type stuff.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)I don't always succeed in all of my posts but I do make an effort. It makes the experience here much more pleasant.
Peace, Mojo
Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)
JI7
(93,615 posts)because he is cute and therefore he must be innocent .
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)
iandhr
(6,852 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)penultimate
(1,110 posts)I haven't seen any of them yet. I'm guessing I will have to keep an eye out. I've tried to engage some of them on twitter, but they are not into having discussions.
*wait, are you talking about snowden or Jahar?
Tarheel_Dem
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Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)It's ludicrous, and kinda scary.
iandhr
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MADem
(135,425 posts)Small consolation--they're so busy yelling at people who don't feel the way they do, that they don't do any real "activism."
IIRC, weren't the sisters, in their hijab for the cameras going into the courtroom, in trouble for something? Embezzlement? Drugs?
Here we are:
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/tsarnaev-sister-pleads-guilty-article-1.1357377#ixzz2Yh4JIq9s
They are a bunch of fucking grifters, if you ask me--and the Islamic bullshit is too much. I don't know any religious Muslims who act like this:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2013/04/tsarnaev_family_history_theft_violence_islam_and_the_boston_marathon_bombings.html
Theft and lawbreaking. By now, most of us have heard that the bombers’ mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, was arrested last year for shoplifting and destruction of property. This weekend’s stories confirm that the charge was a felony, that the quoted value of the merchandise was $1,600, and that the owner of the property was Lord & Taylor, the same company whose security cameras captured the bombers at the marathon. As many as nine dresses were involved in the theft, according to the Post. Zubeidat left the country before the case was resolved, so a warrant remains out for her arrest.
Now it turns out that the bombers’ father might be a shoplifter, too. Anzor Tsarnaev fixed cars for a living. “Sometimes, when he needed parts, he would show up at Nissenbaum’s Auto, a nearby parts and repair shop,” the Post reports. “Several times, workers said, Anzor went into the parts yard to find a bracket or screw and emerged offering to pay a small sum for a handful of items. But employees would see his pockets stuffed. Confronted, they say, he admitted picking up a few other meager items.”
The Post cites other stories in which Anzor bent laws or ethics. He “obtained cars in bad shape, made cosmetic fixes and then sold those vehicles for a profit,” the article reports. A neighbor says Anzor “regularly threw his trash in neighbors’ recycling bins despite being asked to stop, filled precious spaces in this parking-starved city with cars he was working on, and claimed a 10-minute loading zone as his all-day storage space.” These are petty offenses, but what stands out in the neighbor’s account is Anzor’s imperviousness to reproach: “No matter how many times people told him it wasn’t right, he did it anyway.”
We’ve all heard that Dzhokhar was a pothead. But the Los Angeles Times says that according to his friends, he also regularly sold the drug. His sister Bella may have done the same: The Post reports that in December, she was arrested and charged with intent to distribute marijuana.
These infractions are nothing like terrorism. But a family with two shoplifting parents and two pot-selling kids is, on its face, a family with a culture of bending or breaking the law. Zubeidat’s flight from justice, coupled with that line about Anzor—“No matter how many times people told him it wasn’t right, he did it anyway”—doesn’t suggest a lot of remorse, either. The family culture doesn’t explain the bombing. But it’s hard to believe that it’s entirely unrelated.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)
Personally, I think religion is nothing more than a convenience for this eff'd up family. I could care less what happens to the lot of them.
DallasNE
(8,007 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,454 posts)a place as any to start suppressing those midterms. 
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)marry the Mendenez brothers.
Fan club have already started here at least one so far . .
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)If they took it off he could cop a plea.
If he's anything like his fucked up parents, though, he thinks the law doesn't apply to him.
Lenomsky
(340 posts)but when did a bomb become a WMD?
This new term is a tad OOT can a automatic rifle be called a WDM too!?
Anyway, let justice be done regardless of my interpretation of WMD and RIP those that lost their lives in a reckless/insane act of WHATEVER it was!
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)WMD's under state law have included bombs, rockets, rifles over .50 caliber, machine guns, any shotgun with a barrel shorter than 18 inches, any rifle with a barrel shorter than 16 inches, any shotgun or rifle with an overall length under 26 inches, silencers, and some other odd things.
It has been that way since the 50's, well before WMD became a buzzword.
Lenomsky
(340 posts)Come on folks he'll have his day in court no trial by media .. then he can rot in Hell
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)temmer
(358 posts)Tsarnaev’s legal team already includes Judy Clarke, who helped negotiate life sentences for Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph.
“If this case did not present ‘exceptional circumstances’ justifying appointment of an additioanl lawyer learned in the law applicable to capital cases ... no case would,” Clarke wrote in her motion.
“Media reports have described the global scope of the investigation, involving hundreds of agents and witness interviews. Counsel expect that the amount of discovery that this investigation will produce will be truly massive. Thus even were this not a potentially capital case, the magnitude of the task confronting Mr. Tsarnaev’s attorneys would be daunting,” she wrote.
Tsarnaev, 19, pleaded not guilty in federal court last week to 30 charges, 17 of which carry the death penalty. His legal team tried to add Bruck to its ranks back in April. At that time, a judge denied the request but promised to review it after his indictment.
- See more at: http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/07/tsarnaev_defense_team_pushes_to_add_death_penalty_specialist#sthash.tQeNE3Fm.dpuf
Obviously the defense team is determined to fight.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)And lots of them looked foreign.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)I am wondering after the bs verdict if the zim case would allow This criminal an "out clause" also--He claims he Fears (all of us) for His life too!
