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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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would they dock it outside on the Fan Pier?
This could become a macabre temporary tourist attraction.
A Boston major crime/law
A Boston major crime/law enforcement museum would be a big tourist attraction.
Tours
Don't they already offer tours of the state house?
Stop the Fight!
We have a winner.
You sir/madam just won
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Vegas has a Mafia museum. I
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?
Too full of holes to float.
The boat AND his story.
The verbosity of some of
The verbosity of some of those ramblings really goes above and beyond the "his brother made him do it" defense.
I've been following the Globe
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):
Overlap?
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?
Interestingly, Alan
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.
Salutation
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.
nice
Some unexpected comedy in the transcript: "A (hole) bar!"
So, after the boat is moved
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.
The video might not be good enough
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.
starting to scan ebay listings....
...for small yacht, slightly used, historic, needs patch and paint.
Any comparisons to the Leopold and Loeb case defended by Darrow?
Any comparisons to the Leopold and Loeb case defended by Darrow?...
Why on earth would there be?
Even for you, this is a bit of a stretch.
Blow to the defense...
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.