Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3h 3 hours ago
We can now see video from courtroom 9 but still no audio. It's unclear what's going on. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3h 3 hours ago
We have been told we will get an explanation of what happened from the clerk shortly. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3h 3 hours ago
The sidebar was in reference to the video and audio feed issues from courtroom 9 yesterday @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3h 3 hours ago
In the interest of keeping proceedings public, Judge Geroge O'Toole is allowing 2 members of the media to sit in courtroom 9 @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3h 3 hours ago
The @AP will be inside the courtroom in case the feed to our overflow room goes out. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3h 3 hours ago
Throughout jury selection reporters will rotate into the 2 media seats in courtroom 9 @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3h 3 hours ago
The #Tsarnaev defense made the request to allow at least the two reporters into the courtroom @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3h 3 hours ago
We've learned the 2nd panel of jurors about to be brought in to will be 17 and not 20. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3h 3 hours ago
The second jury panel is being brought in now to be given instructions @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 3h 3 hours ago
This group of prospective jurors is 8 men and 9 women. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
#Tsarnaev appears to be avoiding eye contact with the jurors and not writing but drawing on a yellow legal pad @NECN
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 33 is a female whose husband is a @MassStatePolice trooper @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 33 says she thinks her husband's work might impact her ability to be impartial. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 33: "there was a police officer that was killed through this" & hard to ask her to be impartial with MSP husband @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 33 also has a nephew/godson who's a corrections officer locally @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 33 has served as a jury foreperson in a civil trial - says it's totally different than criminal trial @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 33 was asked to step out for a minute. We're now in sidebar @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Back from sidebar & juror 33 is done @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 35 is a male who works in state government @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Judge is now asking juror 35 about whether he's watched coverage of the terrorist attacks in France @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 35: "you instructed us to look at all the evidence presented in front of us, that's my task" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 35 says media coverage of War on Terror has been overdone. Judge asking his to clarify @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 35 media coverage of war on terror is too in depth, too many experts diving in too deep. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 35 said on questionnaire "he would be honored to be eligible to serve" - said that's true of any case, not just #Tsarnaev @NECN
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 35 said he watched a lot about this case but listened to judge to just focus on facts of case before deciding guilt @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 35 went to @OneFundBoston fundraiser & contributed about $50-$75 shortly after marathon bombing @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 35 says he's not for or against the death penalty. Open to both death penalty or life in prison @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 35 says he's "committed myself to make a decision on all the evidence provided in the case" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 35 is done. Juror 37 is up next. A female who is concerned about an eye issue she has causing migraines @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 37 is quickly dismissed. Juror 38 is up next - he is concerned about losing time at work. He fixes computers @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 38 says his father worked for the Department of Defense. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 38 says he uses Facebook and is on there a couple times a week, not posting anything related to this case @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 38 on #Tsarnaev "the case is pretty much everywhere, online, on the news" & he lives near UMass-Dartmouth so it's in local paper @NECN
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 38 says of French terror attacks he tried to stay away from watching the news @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 38 said on questionnaire when he got jury summons he felt "stress & anger" - judge asks him to elaborate @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Judge: "do you still experience anger in regards to this case?" Juror 38: "yeah I think so" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 38 says a friend was a Boston police officer who was at the finish line when bombs went off, cousin at a medical tent @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 38 says he believes his friend was one of the officers in the Time Magazine photo taken right after 1st explosion @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 38: he believes #Tsarnaev is guilty & should get death penalty, but says "maybe I would revise how I feel" after hearing facts @NECN
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
#Tsarnaev is looking down, apparently drawing something on a yellow legal pad, legs crossed @NECN
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Juror 38 says at first that he would have to vote for death penalty, then says he guesses he would be open to life sentence @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Judge O'Toole is being VERY thorough trying to make sure that he's completely clear on a juror's death penalty views. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
In a 1st for this jury selection process, the judge is allowing attorneys to question the juror directly @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 2h 2 hours ago
Prosecutor Bill Weinreb asked juror 38 to elaborate on his hardship mentioned about missing work to serve @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
Prosecutor Weinreb is now asking juror 38 about aggravating and mitigating factors & whether he would be able to weigh those @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
#Tsarnaev defense atty David Bruck asks again about the hardship saying once he's seated he can't change his mind @NECN
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 38 says the bombing was "needless, like yesterday with people blocking themselves on the road" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 38 elaborates "I don't get what any of that accomplishes" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
#Tsarnaev atty asked if juror 38 thought it was the defense burden to prove that he's not guilty - juror 38 says yes @NECN
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
Prosecutor clarifies that if he was instructed innocent until proven guilty could he follow that & juror 38 says yes @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 38 is done. Juror 40 is a former Peace Corps volunteer & she lived in Nepal for a time @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 40 says she works for a Boston tutoring program K-12 & her wife is an attorney. @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 40 says she runs a blog, has 2 twitter accounts & is a Facebook "stalker" @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 40 was a juror in a state civil case a few years ago & was called again last summer but wasn't put on a case @NECN #Tsarnaev
Alysha Palumbo @AlyshaNECN · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 40 says she was at the Westin Hotel on Marathon Monday @NECN #Tsarnaev
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