“I am suffering psychological injury, emotional distress and destruction of my familial relationships,” he says. What kind of distress are the families of Lingzi Lu, Krystle Campbell and Martin Richard experiencing? Do they get to countersue?
“Boston Marathon Bomber Sues Over Treatment In Prison,” CBSBoston.com, March 10, 2021:
BOSTON (CBS) – Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has filed a lawsuit over his treatment at a supermax prison.
The hand-written complaint, originally filed in January, was amended March 5. Among other things, Tsarnaev claims the defendants – which include BOP, the company that administers the prison and Attorney General Merrick Garland – are interfering with his ability to communicate with his family, placing a hold on his money and hurting his chances of avoiding a death sentence….
Tsarnaev says the defendants are violating his First Amendment rights and interfering with his chance to avoid the death penalty by not allowing him to send hobby crafts through the mail to his legal counsel. This constructive behavior, he claimed in the filing, could provide mitigating evidence as prosecutors seek to have the death penalty reinstated. He said the restrictions also interfere with the development of a relationship between him and his defending counsel.
Since 2013, Tsarnaev has been subject to special administrative measures (SAMs) due to his “proclivity to violence,” which may restrict privileges in prison. SAMs must be reviewed and renewed each year.
Tsarnaev claims he has been not been permitted to send photographs to his family since 2019 and that due to the restrictions, “I am suffering psychological injury, emotional distress and destruction of my familial relationships.”
He also claimed he is allowed to have visits with his nieces and nephews but is not allowed to call or write to them, which he said is cruel and unusual punishment. He is allowed to speak to his parents and sisters by phone twice a month.
He said he was issued a face mask due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was reported when the face mask was missing a metal nosepiece. Tsarnaev said the mask was manufactured without the nosepiece and inclusion of the incident as a reason for special administrative measures violated his Fifth Amendment right to due process.
“As a result of the imposition of the SAMs restrictions, I have experienced continued, extreme, and unjustifiable difficulties communicating and corresponding with family members and attorneys,” he wrote.
Tsarnaev also said that on March 1 an administrative hold was placed on about $2,300 in his account. He said the money was made unavailable because it was sent to him by people not approved in the SAMs.
He also claimed that his property – a white baseball cap and a bandana purchased from the commissary – were seized as contraband.
Tsarnaev said he has been in a restrictive unit of the prison since 2015 and has been denied having the restrictions relaxed.
Killed in the 2013 bombing were Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student from China; Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager from Medford; and 8-year-old Martin Richard, who had gone to watch the marathon with his family. Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier was shot to death in his cruiser days later.
John says
Funny he didn’t complain about the pork they’ve been secretly sneaking into his food. ???
PRCS says
Heh!
notnolib says
Give China Joe some time. He’s going to appoint this young fellow to the “What shall we do about those pesky Joooooos” commission.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
“…don’t start nothin’, won’t be nothin.”
Agent J- Men In Black
Jim says
Shouldn’t he have been executed for murder? Shouldn’t he be in Guantanamo? Shouldn’t they apply Sharia law to his case? Who pays for his lawyers? Why isn’t Biden giving him amnesty and a benefits package?
Hoi Polloi says
hobby crafts through the mail….. Like a pressure cooker bomb? And why would anyone, including family members, seek to foster any ties between him and children? Hobby crafts? Would that inmates like him and those who represent people like him were sued for wasting court time. Would that our legal system allowed pursuit to a greater degree of people like him for filing defamatory or frivolous actions.
Jim says
Perhaps he would prefer we transfer him to a Chinese prison in an exchange of good will. He killed a Confesses National!
Hoi Polloi says
You are right that the Chinese would more fully deal with him. Maybe we can repair our trade imbalance this way.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
“So, big bad bug got bit of a soft spot, huh?”
Agent J- Men In Black
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Who exactly did he think he was messin’ with
and who did he think was goin’ to come to his rescue?
Ade Fegan says
The left are on his side .. and the left get everything their own way
very old white guy says
Capital punishment would have eliminated that problem.
mortimer says
So … this mass killer doesn’t like it in jail … ““I am suffering psychological injury, emotional distress and destruction of my familial relationships,”
All other detainees would say the same.
Dusty says
Who cares?
gregbeetham says
Lifeline, they care…well, usually they do.
Dusty says
Who cares?
serialthinker2003 says
he should have been sentenced to death
Mike says
The movie Hannibal where they push the guy into the pig pen
Well we can give this kid a stet up from jail
he can be lunch meat
only tell the pigs this kids not Kosher
He kidded with out remorse just like every Mu$lim does
Cliff Knight says
Prison is supposed to suck–so bad that an inmate will do anything to avoid going back–even be upright and honest if that’s what it takes. That’s the whole point of punishment.
puraposta says
Complain to Allah.
owensgate says
If it were up to me, I’d weld his cell door shut and shove his food to him through a hole in the roof, but since it is NOT up to me, I think what will happen is the New Biden AG, what’s-his-face, I don’t care – he’s an idiot, will see to it that the little jihadi punk gets parole before Biden’s 25th Amendment hearing.
Walter Sieruk says
Who cares if that vicious murderous jihadist terrorist is “suffering emotional distress ” or not .
Tsarnaev has some gall to complain about what he calls the destruction of his familial relationships ” because his’s in prison . That Islamic SOB wouldn’t be in prison in the first place if he and his brother hadn’t planted those two bombs on that Boston street in their Muslim terrorist hate and malice.
How about the familial relationships bomb victims that he and his jihadist bother terribly damaged a Islamic terror murder attack ? How about the three people they murdered and the maimed victims in the vicious Muslim terrorist ? The victims as well as the families of that jihad bombing had and might still be suffering genuine emotional distress.
If Tsamaev had even a small bit of decency and goodness him, he would be suffering emotional destress because of the people he murdered and harmed as well as the grief and sorrow he caused their families.
Yet his only concern is about himself and how he may happens to feel because he is in prison ,apart for his family.
This awful murderous jihadist villain should be put in what is called the “the hole” until he is executed by the State government.
David Longfellow says
Screw him.
Ade Fegan says
poor fellow … my heart bleeds
Kay says
Ok, it’s time to let the surviving families of his victims decide the rest of his capital punishment. Maybe they will be nicer!
SB says
Piece of efin’ dirt. He takes lives, and expects special treatment.
James Lincoln says
Recommend maintaining all special administrative measures (SAMs) at ADX Florence, Colorado.
No changes…
seabird says
At least he got something right, he ran over his brother.
We should ensure his familial relationship rights by locking him up with his mother.
Thinker1 says
Poor baby. Prison is for punishment, not his happiness.
PRCS says
Don’t worry, dear Muslim boy.
Old Joe has assured the country, “Help is on the way!”
You should be receiving your $1400 stimulus check any day now.