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| FBI pushed elder Tsarnaev to be informer, lawyers assert |
| 2014-03-29 |
| [Boston Globe] Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asserted Friday that his older brother and alleged accomplice had been encouraged by the FBI to be an informant and to report on the Chechen and Muslim community, according to court records. You can only get away for six months? Hey, no problem. “We seek this information based on our belief that these contacts were among the precipitating events for Tamerlan’s actions during the week of April 15, 2013, and thus material to the defense case in mitigation,” the lawyers said in their court filing. “We base this on information from our client’s family and other sources that the FBI made more than one visit to talk with Anzor [his father], Zubeidat [his mother] and Tamerlan, questioned Tamerlan about his Internet searches, and asked him to be an informant, reporting on the Chechen and Muslim community. Hey, we gotcha here on these anarchist boom making sites, sure you don't want to help us out ? “We do not suggest that these contacts are to be blamed and have no evidence to suggest that they were improper, but rather view them as an important part of the story of Tamerlan’s decline. Since Tamerlan is dead, the government is the source of corroboration that these visits did in fact occur and of what was said during them.” The lawyers suggested that Tamerlan Tsarnaev could have misinterpreted his interactions with the FBI as pressure from the agency, and that they could have “increased his paranoia and distress.” Or he could have interpreted his interaction correctly, smiled and taken the dough for travel, and terrorism seed money. The defense wants to investigate those factors as it seeks to portray Tamerlan as a dominating family figure who may have pushed the younger Dzhokhar to take part in the April 15 bombings last year. Tamerlan was killed days after the bombings in a confrontation with police in Watertown. The lawyers’ allegation, based on conversations with family members and other sources, was made in a 23-page court filing Friday in which the lawyers sought a court order forcing prosecutors to turn over more evidence in the case. But, but, but aren't prosecutors required by law to provide evidence ? Specifically, they want additional evidence about Tamerlan’s radical views, which would be useful in the lawyers’ defense against the death penalty. Lawyers argued that, now that prosecutors have declared they will seek capital punishment, Dzhokar should be allowed to present evidence of mitigating factors that would tilt a jury against the death penalty. Yep, dead and quiet like the other ones. That's what we wants. Those factors include evidence about his age at the time of the bombings, which was 19, his lack of criminal history, and the possible influence of others, specifically a radical older brother, court records said. “The underlying data concerning the brothers’ activities, state of mind, and respective trajectories is critical,” the defense said. “Evidence that shows Tamerlan to have had a substantially longer and deeper engagement than his younger brother with extremist and violent ideology is mitigating for the light that it sheds on their relative culpability.” "Underlying data" might indicate the Tsarnaev's were no strangers to the Bureau or US intelligence. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 FWIW, my current browser's default encoding setting displays those characters as uppercase A circumflex. Switching encoding to 'Unicode' displays the diamonds Barbara's seeing. Switching encoding to 'Hebrew' (random choice) makes everything copastetic. Heh. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2014-03-29 21:53 |
| #5 That's seriously impressive, Squinty. I suspect it would be unwise for you to explain how you did that. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-03-29 21:47 |
| #4 I hope the FBI found the results informative. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-29 21:29 |
| #3 Thanks, Squinty - I think. Don't really understand what you wrote after "It is not your computer," but thanks. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-03-29 21:26 |
| #2 It is not your computer. The symbols are emedded in the Html page source. <span ID="rquote388337" onDblClick="openEditor(388337)">[Boston Globe] Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asserted Friday that his older brother and alleged accomplice had been encouraged by the FBI to be an informant and to report on the Chechen and Muslim community, according to court records.<br /> <span style=background-color:YELLOW;>You can only get away for six months? Hey, no problem.</span><br /> �"We seek this information based on our belief that these contacts were among the precipitating events for Tamerlan's actions during the week of April 15, 2013, and thus material to the defense case in mitigation,�" the lawyers said in their court filing. <br /> <br /> �"We base this on information from our client's family and other sources that the FBI made more than one visit to talk with Anzor [his father], Zubeidat [his mother] and Tamerlan, questioned Tamerlan about his Internet searches, and asked him to be an informant, reporting on the Chechen and Muslim community.<br /> <span style=background-color:YELLOW;>Hey, we gotcha here on these anarchist boom making sites, sure you don't want to help us out ? </span><br /> �"We do not suggest that these contacts are to be blamed and have no evidence to suggest that they were improper, but rather view them as an important part of the story of Tamerlan's decline. Since Tamerlan is dead, the government is the source of corroboration that these visits did in fact occur and of what was said during them.�"<br /> <br /> |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-03-29 20:16 |
| #1 I'm getting a bunch of question marks in nave diamonds throughout this and other articles. Anyone know what it means? Or is it just my computer? :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-03-29 20:01 |