Legal tactics fail for Tsarnaev as they did for ‘Whitey’ Bulger

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Whitey Bulger can compare notes in Hell. Both used a legal tactic to delay justice and lost by trying to blame the judges in their murder cases for having a bias. The right to due process is enshrined in both the federal and Massachusetts Constitutions, so any accusation otherwise stings. Judges are human and, like the rest of us, listen to heinous accusations and do their best to leave emotions outside the court and oversee a trial with professionalism. We’ll leave those who fail in this cherished endeavor for another day. But the trials of Tsarnaev and Bulger will go down in Boston history and, sadly, are still being regurgitated today. Deep in his losing appeal, Tsarnaev accused the federal judge in his case of having a bias because he spoke about the difficulties of running a high-profile trial in our Social Media Age. Yet, the federal Appeals Court in Boston ruled U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. did not betray his oath. Tsarnaev is on death row in a Colorado Supermax awaiting O’Toole’s decision on whether two jurors in the death penalty pWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times