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Inside the boat

By adamg on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 8:08am

WBUR reports on the confessed murderer's scribblings inside the boat in Watertown. The Herald reports the judge in the case is considering having the boat towed to the South Boston courthouse for jurors to see.

MassLive.com focuses on the testimony of Jessica Kensky, too busy trying to care for her husband after one of the explosions to notice she was on fire.

The Globe provides live coverage of testimony.

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By Ron Newman on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 9:01am.

This could become a macabre temporary tourist attraction.

By anon on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 9:23am.

A Boston major crime/law enforcement museum would be a big tourist attraction.

By BostonDog on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 9:45am.

Don't they already offer tours of the state house?

By relaxyapsycho on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 9:52am.

We have a winner.

By anon on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 10:00am.

You sir/madam just won #UniversalHub

By Lyndsay on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 1:59pm.

Vegas has a Mafia museum. I expect at some point the boat, the physical evidence and the photos will become part of some exhibit, maybe the National Archives in DC?

By anon on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 10:55am.

The boat AND his story.

By gotdatwmd on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 9:06am.

The verbosity of some of those ramblings really goes above and beyond the "his brother made him do it" defense.

By Lyndsay on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 10:13am.

I've been following the Globe Twitter feed on the case when I have time at work.
Best tweet of the day so far goes to Hilary Sargent (I am not sure how to post tweets here so I just copied and pasted into a quote):

Hilary Sargent ✔ @lilsarg

Ummmmm

FBI Agent: “Something like… a hundred and two, a hundred and five percent of the American public have cell phones.” #Tsarnaev
9:58 AM - 11 Mar 2015

By anon on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 1:08pm.

According to Pew in January 2014, 90% of Americans own a cell phone. But if ~14% of that group of people own more than one cell phone, which I would believe, that would make the cell:citizen ratio broadly look (with poor analysis) like 102%. Maybe that's what he's doing?

By Lyndsay on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 10:19am.

Interestingly, Alan Dershowitz was on WBUR the other night discussing defense strategy, and he thinks it'll be a hung jury on the sentence (which I think then defaults to LOP). Says the defense just needs to get to one juror to waiver on the death penalty question. I hadn't really thought of it that way.
I get that the defense wants the jurors to see the actual boat so they can see the bullet holes that came entirely from outside, but the jury also knows that this Dzokar was throwing pipe bombs at the cops and using the car as a deadly weapon before he ran, and they had no way of knowing he wasn't still armed. So I'm not sure what is to be gained by the defense by showing the jurors the actual boat.

By Hyde_Parker on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 10:53am.

That salutation is fitting:

"All credit goes (hole)"

On a serious note, my thoughts and prayers to the victims families, and all the witnesses testifying. This must be bringing up a lot of emotions for them, and I hope they've found some support to cope.

By Malcolm Tucker on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 11:07am.

Some unexpected comedy in the transcript: "A (hole) bar!"

By roadman on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 11:40am.

to the courthouse so the jurors can see the message for themselves (because apparently seeing a video image of the message isn't good enough these days), wonder if the judge will then rule that the jury needs to take a field visit to the Central Square Whole Foods to see the freezer the gallon of milk was bought from firsthand.

By SwirlyGrrl on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 2:08pm.

It isn't always possible to read things recorded in a video in the way that it is firsthand. Also, it removes any and all doubt that the scrawlings were properly represented in the video, that they actually came from the boat, and were represented in their entirety.

If the prosecution wants to make a capital case with these scrawlings, they damn well should show the jury the boat.

By teric on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 3:06pm.

...for small yacht, slightly used, historic, needs patch and paint.

By theszak on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 12:32pm.

Any comparisons to the Leopold and Loeb case defended by Darrow?...

By lbb on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 1:46pm.

Even for you, this is a bit of a stretch.

By Lyndsay on Wed, 03/11/2015 - 5:00pm.

The MIT student who rode past Sean Collier and the suspects on his bike is testifying to only seeing one Tsarnaev there - Dzokhar. He made a positive ID.
So that weakens the defense theory that it was Tamerlan that shot Collier. Also, murder of an officer gets the death penalty on its own.