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Boston jihad mass murder made “statement to his detriment” during sister’s visit, his lawyers tried to suppress it

Mar 1, 2014 10:33 am By Robert Spencer

RSDzhokharNo one is saying what this “statement to his detriment” was, but since his lawyers tried to suppress it, it was clearly some admission of guilt in the Boston Marathon jihad massacre, or some expression of pleasure at some other jihad massacre. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s guilt is obvious: on top of all the evidence placing him at the scene, as well as the police chase and hunt for him, there are the activities of his friends to destroy evidence — as well as the Russians’ warnings about his brother. His lawyers are obligated to give him a fair trial, but they abuse their responsibility as attorneys by trying to suppress evidence of his guilt. However, given the near-universal acceptance of the idea that resistance to jihad terror is “Islamophobia” and Tsarnaev’s resulting rock-star status, it isn’t surprising.

“Feds: Tsarnaev made detrimental remark in prison,” from WCVB.com, February 28 (thanks to Kenneth):

BOSTON —An FBI agent overheard Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev make a “statement to his detriment” when his sister visited him in prison, federal prosecutors said Friday.

Prosecutors did not reveal what Tsarnaev said, but they objected to what they called an attempt by Tsarnaev’s lawyers to suppress the statement.

Tsarnaev made the remark when an investigator working for his lawyers accompanied Tsarnaev’s sister to a prison visit, a meeting that was monitored by an FBI agent, prosecutors said. The defense investigator started to explain to Tsarnaev’s sister the rationale behind special restrictions placed on Tsarnaev in prison, prosecutors said.

They say Tsarnaev, “despite the presence of an FBI agent and an employee of the federal public defender, was unable to temper his remarks and made a statement to his detriment which was overheard by the agent.”

The government described the conversation in a memo outlining their opposition to a request from Tsarnaev’s lawyers to lift the prison restrictions, known as special administrative measures.

Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded not guilty in the terrorist attack at last year’s marathon. Two pressure-cooker bombs were placed near the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 260.

Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty against Tsarnaev for crimes that include using a weapon of mass destruction.

In a separate filing late Friday, lawyers for Tsarnaev sought to have multiple charges against him dismissed, saying they are repetitive and that the total number of charges could sway jurors weighing whether to find him guilty and, if they do, whether to sentence him to death.

Noting that more than half of the 30 federal charges carry a possible death sentence, his lawyers wrote that the number of capital charges “appears designed to put a thumb on the scales of justice in favor of the death penalty.”

Experts have said earlier filings suggest the defense may try to save Tsarnaev’s life by arguing he fell under the influence of his brother. Friday’s motion was submitted by his lawyer Judy Clarke, one of the nation’s foremost death penalty specialists.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers have also argued that the prohibitive prison measures limit Tsarnaev’s interactions with people helping his defense team.

Prosecutors argued that the FBI agent’s presence was permitted by the special administrative measures, which prohibit providing information to people outside the prison.

Judge George O’Toole Jr. agreed to ease some of the restrictions earlier, but Tsarnaev’s lawyers filed a new request last week to lift them.

Miriam Conrad, one of Tsarnaev’s lawyers, said their renewed request “was not prompted by any comment that Mr. Tsarnaev made during a family visit.”

“We have continuously opposed the SAMs (special administrative measures) as unwarranted, and we believe they unduly interfere with our representation of our client,” she said.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers had complained that the restrictions “continue to interfere with preparation of the defense in important ways,” including “obstacles related to FBI monitoring of family visits.”

Tsarnaev’s lawyers say the presence of the FBI agent during prison visits by Tsarnaev’s two sisters “has thwarted the defense ability to develop important mitigation information.”

They argue that courts have recognized the kind of information the defense wants to develop as admissible mitigation evidence, including evidence on “family dysfunction, mental illness and the impact of family chaos on the defendant as he grew up.”

Prosecutors have argued that the restrictions are necessary in Tsarnaev’s case because of his “commitment to jihad” and his “widespread notoriety.”

“There was no expectation of privacy on the part of Tsarnaev, his visitors or the investigator,” they argue….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Mar 1, 2014 at 11:06 am

    [ Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s guilt is obvious
    (Even the UK has sentenced the murderers of Lee Rigby in less time ) while the US legal system gets bogged down in appeasement to Islam apologists.

    He made a “statement to his detriment” and his lawyers tried to suppress it.
    Just list the news media tried to edit and suppress public disgust with
    The classic “to kill one is to kill all of humanity” corrupted doggy-treat sound bite.

    Boston bomb attack [the true full version of Quran 5:32]
    David Wood

  2. Loves God says

    Mar 1, 2014 at 11:37 am

    Well, considering Lynne Stewart was convicted of passing on information, it is not unreasonable to consider that something similar could happen again.

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 1, 2014 at 11:42 am

    The heinous and murderous “holy book” of Islam [the Quran] teachers the believers in this death cult in Sura 47:4 “When you encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads until you make a great slaughter among them…” Using a bomb or two may make a greater “slaughter among then a sword can. As seen in Boston.
    It also should be added that I looked up this verse in the Quran that was printed before September 11, 2001 and then I looked up the same verse in another English “translation’ was was printed after 9?11 the there was an attempt to cover up the deadly content of this deceptive, dangerous and wicked book

  4. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 1, 2014 at 11:23 pm

    If every part of his cell isn’t bugged, it damn well *ought* to be. And someone ought to be listening in – or recording – every hour of every day.. with *especial* attention paid when and if he gets visited by family members.

    Thought for the day: he’s going to be represented as having been manipulated by his older brother.

    But what if it were the other way around??? No reason why not. Little brothers have been known to manipulate big brothers.

    Or they could have been egging *each other* on.

    Or mama and sister could have been egging them on.

    Lots of possibilities.

    I observe his sister is visiting him. Has sister – and her husband – been *thoroughly* interrogated? And I hope that before she visited her brother, this Allah Gang camp follower was strip-searched by no-nonsense female guards.

  5. Kepha says

    Mar 2, 2014 at 1:18 am

    Yes, I see Joker Tsarnaev as poster boy for the death penalty, and I have no qualms about its use on murderers (if proven to be such beyond a reasonable doubt).

    However, when I note how the O administration is full of crusaders against the death penalty, including Holder himself, yet is nonetheless pursuing the death penalty in this case, I wince. The thing smacks of political considerations taking precedence over the law–and this is a dangerous course to take.

    • kikorikid says

      Mar 2, 2014 at 3:35 pm

      “a dangerous course to take”
      Yes, A lawless country is a dangerous place.
      Obama and Holder only act on laws they like.
      Holder has stated that if there are
      Civil Rights violations, and the victim is White,
      the DOJ will not enforce the Law.

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