Not long ago we learned that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, received a $1400.00 stimulus payment from Joe Biden. Lucky him. This past week, well, not so lucky.
The United States Supreme Court on Friday upheld the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an Islamic terrorist who was convicted of perpetrating the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, which killed three people and injured hundreds more, including 17 who lost limbs.
The court voted 6-3 to reverse a lower court decision that had overturned Tsarnaev’s death sentence, with the three liberal justices dissenting.
The lower court based its decision on the matter of jury selection and evidence that was excluded from the original trial.
The Court of Appeals vacated Dzhokhar’s capital sentences on two grounds. First, the court held that the District Court abused its discretion during jury selection by declining to ask about the kind and degree of each prospective juror’s media exposure, as required by that court’s decision in Patriarca v. United States, 402 F. 2d 314. Second, the court held that the District Court abused its discretion during sentencing when it excluded evidence concerning Tamerlan’s possible involvement in the Waltham murders.
The Supreme Court, upon review, did not find anything of the sort and overturned the lower court ruling.
As to whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s sentence is ever carried out, that’s another matter. I suspect if he has not already, he’ll have plenty of time to “spend” his stimulus payment.
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HT | Gellar Report
