Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Jury Trial - discussion *GUILTY*

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Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Juror 190: her husband is project mgr. for excavation firm; she's an ops manager for elderly-health care non-profit. #Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 58s 59 seconds ago
Juror 190 is seated, a middle-aged woman. Her husband does "dirt work" for an excavation company.#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
190: uses facebook to "talk to my sister and play the slot games, that's it."

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1m 1 minute ago
She is an operations manager who works with the elderly on Cape Ann. She likes to play "the slots" online.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6m 6 minutes ago
Conrad laughs, "Your father was a statue maker? Can you tell us what that means?" ..He was born in Italy. He makes statues

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 6m 6 minutes ago
Her father was born in Italy and made statues for a living. "Interesting!" #Tsarnaev attorney Miriam Conrad remarked,

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6m 6 minutes ago
Conrad getting juror to say when she thinks of death penalty, she thinks of this kind of crime.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5m 5 minutes ago
Conrad: You’re saying you can be open, but “This is different, from anything you’ve ever been asked to do before.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Like so many before her, juror 190:
* thinks #Tsarnaev is guilty
* is unsure re: death penalty
* thinks she can be impartial on this jury

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
190: thinks death penalty is ok if crime is "premeditated" and if the person set out to kill people. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Says, by media, he is guilty. But she can be open. Though “I do believe in the death penalty if the crime is serious enough and warrants it”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 11s 12 seconds ago
Juror 190 is a licensed social worker who previously worked for the state welfare department.#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Juror 190: what sticks out is how many people got injured, the shock, just "the horrificness of it".

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
190: thinks death penalty would apply in a case like this, in her view; adds she *would* take factors like #Tsarnaev age, record into play.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
190 now says she "couldn't guarantee" she can presume #Tsarnaev is innocent.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5m 5 minutes ago
Juror says, "I'm not sure" when asked if she could convict with even a weak prosecution. She's allowed to leave

 

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Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
That's it for 190.
Juror 191: wife is an RN; he is patient care assistant at a different health care facility.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Juror 191, one of the few, if not only, black men we’ve seen in jury pool. We saw more diversity today.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 3m 3 minutes ago
His wife is a nurse at a local health center. He also works as a secretary, processing orders for patients/by doctors

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 5m 5 minutes ago
Juror 191, a male, is from Jamaica, the pool is hearing.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 4m 4 minutes ago
#Tsarnaev pours Conrad a cup of water.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 3m 3 minutes ago
Juror 191 is a hospital unit coordinator (a 'secretary' he simplifies it) and his wife an RN.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 30s 31 seconds ago
His father-in-law is an immigration attorney in Atlanta.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 42s 42 seconds ago
He previously served on a state jury deciding a civil personal injury case.#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
191: got this summons and thought to himself "no difference whether I'm called or not."
That's the first one of those we've heard.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
191: Unsure re: #Tsarnaev guilt and unsure re: possible punishment.
"To be honest I haven't formed an opinion..." he says.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 35s 35 seconds ago
The juror said he has no opinion of #Tsarnaev because he didn't follow the #BostonMarathonBombing.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Lawyers interrupt to say...they have no follow up for #191.
Judge wants to keep going "for completeness" he says.

 

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Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
191 remembers an "old guy" who fell while running the marathon after bomb; #Tsarnaev, still playing with pen, tosses it onto the table.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Lawyers who had no questions for 191 suddenly have many; probing his thoughts on imposing death penalty. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 57s 58 seconds ago
Juror 191 seeming indifferent to process. Prosecutors asking, could you actually vote for death? "yea, sure."

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 2m 2 minutes ago
Juror 191 doesn't remember where he was on April 15, 2013. "Probably sleeping."#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
English does not seem to be 191's native language. He is done.
Juror 195 is up: she was born in UK, but is US citizen.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6s 7 seconds ago
Next is Juror 195, brought up in UK, outside London. She’s unemployed. “I’m still looking.”

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
195: went to college for one year but "I wasn't a fan of college" she says. Currently unemployed and looking.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 22s 22 seconds ago
#Tsarnaev has developed a mild cough.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 21s 21 seconds ago
Juror 195. a young woman, is unemployed and "wasn't a fan of college." She was born in England to American parents.#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
195: anxious when she got summons; "I didn't know...if I could look at it fairly, but I've always believed in innocent until proven guilty."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 35s 36 seconds ago
Didn't know at first she’d been summoned for a federal case, and, “I didn’t know how big of a case it was, how importance of a case it was.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 39s 39 seconds ago
Didn’t know if she could be fair. She knew her duty, though: “I’ve always believed in innocent until proven guilty.”

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
#Tsarnaev steals a couple quick glances at juror 195; he's biting his nails, looking around room, scratching face.
195: unsure re: his guilt

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Re: death penalty, juror 195 says it depends on the case and "would think really hard" about it. "It's not something to take lightly."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6s 6 seconds ago
On death penalty, “It’s not something to take lightly. If it warrants the death penalty then I’d be willing to think about it and....."

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 49s 49 seconds ago
Juror 195 could see herself finding #Tsarnaev not guilty. The death penalty "is not something to take lightly."

Milton Valencia retweeted
Shira Schoenberg @shiraschoenberg · 4m 4 minutes ago
With the storm coming, only about a dozen journalists left watching Tsarnaev jury selection today

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 50s 50 seconds ago
Steve Mellin asks bluntly, "You'd be able to impose the death penalty?" ....She stares back, intently. "Yes."

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
#195 was "shocked" the day of the bombing; on Friday, "I woke up to the news of the MIT officer who was shot."
Sheltered in place that day.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
"It was scary to be locked in your house...and we're not that far from Watertown...Kind of on edge all day," 195 says. (Was in Brighton.)

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 46s 47 seconds ago
She'd been in Brighton. Got alert of bombings from brother in NY. “I was shocked. It was a hard thing to realize it actually happened.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1m 1 minute ago
Juror 195 still lives at home. She makes eye contact with pool reporters. Jurors aren't told press are in the courtroom.#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Parents have asked 195 how she'd feel about imposing the death penalty; she says she doesn't know what mom & dad would do.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 36s 37 seconds ago
“My parents were asking me how I felt about the death penalty, and I told them I was OK with that.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 12s 13 seconds ago
Hasn’t talked to her friends about it though. “Only my family knows I’m here.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1m 1 minute ago
She and her family had to shelter in place on April 19, 2013, while #Tsarnaev was on the loose, his brother dead. "It was scary."

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
No matter the sentence, ppl will have opinions of me, 195 says. I just have to do what I think is right based on the evidence. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 16s 17 seconds ago
David Bruck asking, you would have to vote yourself. She says yes, and she's allowed to leave.

 

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Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Juror198: takes his 2 small sons to/from day care. worried about schedule conflicts.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Juror 198, a tall guy sporting the plaid and a beard.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
198: Wife has a new job and will need to travel for work, but not until June.
He teaches first grade.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
198: feels #Tsarnaev is guilty and that he should get the death penalty.
Thinks he is able to "change my mind, but it would take a lot."

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
198 needs defense to "change his mind."
He & family did not shelter in place; they were on vacation that week. #Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
198 works with the wife of someone who *might* be called as witness. 198 says he can still be fair re: that testimony.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1m 1 minute ago
Juror saying it would be up for defense to change his mind on Tsarnaev's guilt. Defense atty's looking at prosecutors like, "can we move on"

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 14s 15 seconds ago
Juror 198 works with the wife of an unidentified man on one of the witness lists.#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Typically when a juror says they need defense to *prove* #Tsarnaev is innocent, their questioning ends. In this case, it's continuing.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
"It would be tough" to ignore all he's seen and review the evidence. "It's tough to forget and put aside," 198 says. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Can put aside what heard about case? “After seeing and reading all that, it would be tough?..I don’t think I can put it out of my mind, no”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 22s 23 seconds ago
Juror 198 doubts he can separate #Tsarnaev from what he's seen of the #BostonMarathonBombing. " "It's tough to forget and put aside."

 

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Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Juror 199: husband is a sales rep; she is an RN, her company just got bought out. she does health screenings for private companies.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Juror 199: "I'll be honest with you...I'd rather work, but I won't lose my house if I don't. Is that what you're asking?" #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 53s 54 seconds ago
Juror 199, husband is an independent sales rep, she’s an RN. Does health screening for corporations. “It’s a wellness program, basically.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1m 1 minute ago
Judge asking, would this be a hardship? She maintains it’s not. “Would I choose to do it? Probably not, but I understand this is important.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 43s 44 seconds ago
Juror 188 is an independent RN and the grandmother of twins.
Of jury service, "I'll be honest with you, I would rather work."#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 2m 2 minutes ago
Correction: That is Juror 199.#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
199 thinks #Tsarnaev guilty; unsure on death penalty; feels "able" to be impartial.
"It's difficult to say unless you're in that position."

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
"you can't unring a bell," 199 says, adding she would have to work hard to approach this case without bias, but she "hopes" she could.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 5s 5 seconds ago
She, too, feels her opinion of #Tsarnaev has already been cemented by media coverage of the #BostonMarathonBombing.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
199 is generally against death penalty, but "terrorists" should get it, she says, because "it's a war crime."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1m 1 minute ago
Saying she presumes Tsarnaev is guilty, but she doesn't have all the info, and says her mind could change.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 3m 3 minutes ago
“There are plenty of times the media doesn’t tell you everything, they call it as they want," she says

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 52s 52 seconds ago
Juror saying she opposes death penalty in general, particularly in US justice system. But she supports it in terrorism, a "war crime."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1m 1 minute ago
With attacks “On my country ... I don’t have a problem with them being executed.”

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
If terrorists plot an attack against "my country", then they should get the death penalty, juror 199 explains

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1m 1 minute ago
Juror 199 believes terrorists deserve to be killed for committing "a war crime."#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 2m 2 minutes ago
"If someone. a group of people plot, carry out a terrorist attack on my country, I don't have a problem with them being executed."#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
"I'm in the business of keeping people healthy and alive...but I have strong feelings about people who don't respect life," 199 says

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 35s 36 seconds ago
She recognizes this is a heinous crime, but, I’m in the business of helping people, and we’re talking about taking someone’s life.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 36s 36 seconds ago
Lawyers agree to let her go. That is it for the day. We have seen 98 jurors

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
We are done today; lawyers will now meet in private as per usual to discuss who's in and out.
Court is closed tomorrow b/c of weather.

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http://boston.cbslocal.com/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-trial-live-updates/

 

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Winter Storm Juno Will Further Delay the Tsarnaev Trial

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/...-jury-selection-delayed-by-winter-storm-juno/

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Why moving Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial won’t nullify pretrial media coverage
Live and digital coverage of the Boston Marathon makes pretrial publicity almost inescapable

"...“Change of venue, in response to prejudicial coverage in a particular area, may no longer be effective in the age of the Internet, when newspapers keep archives of back issues obtainable online,” British law professor Gavin Phillipson wrote in a paper presented at Duke Law School in 2007. “Nor will it assist when the prejudicial publicity was carried by national newspapers or television stations.” Or digital media outlets with audiences spread nationwide, for that matter..."

http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/...php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

 

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial: Jury selection will continue Thursday

"BOSTON - Jury selection in case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man accused of setting a bomb at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, will resume Thursday morning at 9 a.m.

Jury selection is in its fourth week and is going slower than anticipated. The process was suspended Tuesday and Wednesday because of the blizzard..."

http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2015/01/dzhokhar_tsarnaev_trial_jury_s_4.html

 

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial: Boston Globe files court motion to open jury selection decisions to public

"...Until now, U.S. District Court Judge George O'Toole and the attorneys have questioned prospective jurors in public. But they have deliberated in private over which jurors will be dismissed for cause. The press does not know whether any jurors have been excused so far, and which jurors they are....

Individual questioning of jurors continues Thursday."

http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2015/01/dzhokhar_tsarnaev_trial_boston.html

 

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These 3 Women Are The Accused Boston Bomber's Biggest Fans

"...Over the last few weeks, as Dzhokhar has appeared in court for pretrial hearings, this small group of older female supporters has faithfully shown up at the courthouse with posters proclaiming his innocence...

We spoke to three die-hard Dzhokhar supporters to find out. Each has her own theories and ideas, but the common thread is an emotional connection: they see Jahar as childlike and emotionally vulnerable, and the maternal empathy they feel seems to override everything else...."

http://www.refinery29.com/2015/01/80705/boston-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-fans

 

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Jury Selection for the Tsarnaev Trial Will Continue Today

(Sketch via Art Lien)

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/...-jury-selection-to-resume-in-boston-thursday/

 

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Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2h 2 hours ago
So @Laurel_Sweet and I are in the courtroom now, expecting judge and jurors to come out soon for #Tsarnaev jury selections.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
We have eight jurors today in #Tsarnaev, six women and two men

Laurel J. Sweet retweeted
Antonio Planas @AntonioPlanas1 · 3h 3 hours ago
A spokesman for the Bristol County DA just confirmed to me that there will be delay in opening statements because one juror didn't show.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 2h 2 hours ago
Today, we could possibly replete all potential #Tsarnaev jurors from panel 1 of 6 that the original 1,373 were divided into.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 2h 2 hours ago
At any rate, we will reach the 100th prospective juror to be interviewed about #Tsarnaev,

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 2h 2 hours ago
After 2 hour delay, the pool is finally open! Jump in.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 2h 2 hours ago
#Tsarnaev, engrossed in file reading, appears to be briefing himself on today's juror profiles.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
"Thank you for being here on such a terrible travel morning," Judge tells jurors in #Tsarnaev. Giving instructions to jurors.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
So #Tsarnaev was chatting with lawyers before proceedings began. Now sits back in chair, head down.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
Tsarnaev wearing black suit jacket, tan pants, black shoes. Standing for jury, goes to sit a little too early, realizes awkward + stands up

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 2h 2 hours ago
Today's #Tsarnaev outfit quite New England preppy: dark blazer, tan pants, light-colored dress shirt.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
O'Toole saying hello to lawyers, "A slow start, for obvious reasons I'm afraid."

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Hearing rumblings from trial table that today's group of 17 jurors may have already been pared way down due to perceived biases.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
And in fact they have! We are down to 8 - six women and two men.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Judge George O'Toole Jr. thanks them for showing up "on such a terrible travel morning."#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Left hand of #Tsarnaev still bears mark where he was shot.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
This is the 11th day #Tsarnaev has heard O'Toole tell a group of strangers they may hold his life in their hands.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Defense attorney Miriam Conrad discreetly taps #Tsarnaev right forearm to stand as the jury exits.

 

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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 204 is the 99th to be interviewed.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 204, a woman, wearing a flowered shirt with a blue cardigan sweater. “I appreciate you being here,” judge says. “No problem.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
Her brother is an Army sergeant, in Fort Hood. "i don't talk to him about what he does." She's a medical secretary in medical office.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Her brother is a sergeant in the @USArmy, she is secretary to a urologist.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Her brother served in Afghanistan. He received an award for saving people after a bomb went off.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 204 doesn't like to talk about such things with him. "It makes me nervous." #Tsarnaev does not acknowledge her.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
She keeps saying she uses Twitter to follow a comedian, but doesn't say who.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
Her brother has been deployed to Kosovo, Afghanistan. Got award for helping people.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
“I don’t like to talk about that stuff (with him) because it makes me nervous," she says. Her mom knows more.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
#Tsarnaev bodyguard count now at 5.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 204 reveals she had a great aunt who was murdered.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
She's thought about death penalty suitability before: Her great aunt was murdered

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
O'Toole and the lawyers have not disclosed to us how many of the jurors interviewed so far may be called back.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
#Prosecutor Bill Weinreb asks Juror 204 if she's prepared to look at "graphic pictures and video of people who've lost limbs."#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
Her views on the death penalty, she wrote, “it depends on the crime, and if guilty without a doubt.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
She's trying to speak fast, and judge tells her, "relax, take a deep breathe."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
On a scale of one to 10, she listed support for death penalty at a 5, "Yea, in the middle," she giggles.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
#Tsarnaev averts his gaze to the ceiling.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Could Juror 204 order #Tsarnaev killed? "I'm not sure," she stammers nervously. "I know it would be a really, really big decision."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
Doesn't track the news. "The only time I'm watching TV in the morning is if my dad has it on, and I'm putting on shoes," she says

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Crowds make her anxious. Even this intimate group has her trembling.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
She lives with her parents. Seems like a very sweet girl.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
Bill Weinreb asking if her brother's service in Afghanistan would influence her, because of Tsarnaev's alleged motives. She says no.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
“Do you believe that in a real life situation, you could actually do it, sentence someone to death?” “I’m not sure.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
“It would be a big decision,” she says, pointing out “I’m nervous right now.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
“If I thought it was justified, I believe I could,” she says.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror sitting at edge of seat. She has a nervous giggle. Tsarnaev seems to be pointing body in other direction.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
"Lots of people in a room makes me really anxious," she says.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror has another state summons for jury service, in April. "Only me would get too," she says, with that nervous giggle again.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
With no more questions, she's allowed to leave.

 

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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
Congratulations Juror 205, you're our 100th interview!#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1h 1 hour ago
Juror 205, wearing jeans and a button down collared shirt, tucked in. Glasses, hair pushed back. He’s another engineer, in Cambridge.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1h 1 hour ago
He is an engineer in Cambridge - where #Tsarnaev lived - who designs navigation systems.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 57m 57 minutes ago
He said the evidence as he knows it against #Tsarnaev is "pretty compelling. It's hard to imagine that he was completely innocent."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 60m 60 minutes ago
Juror had wrote, “It’s hard to imagine he’s completely innocent.” Says the facts, “were pretty compelling.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 55m 55 minutes ago
As for death penalty, puts support for death penalty at 6 on scale of 10. “I do not have strong opinions about this.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 55m 55 minutes ago
“I have not formed a strong opinion 1 way or another. In some ways I feel life imprisonment might be a more serious punishment than (dp)”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 55m 55 minutes ago
Says defendant would be in prison a long time and “They would see the missed opportunities in their lives.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 56m 56 minutes ago
Juror 205 has followed the national debate about the death penalty but not formed an opinion.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 54m 54 minutes ago
He could see life imprisonment mulling over "the missed opportunities" in one's life far more torturous.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 52m 52 minutes ago
Juror 205 has run the #BostonMarathon. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 53m 53 minutes ago
Ran the Boston Marathon a long time ago, and “it’s a great race…….but it’s not at all relevant in this case.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 50m 50 minutes ago
David Bruck asking if juror can work with other people, different educations/backgrounds. He says would build off experience as team leader.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 48m 48 minutes ago
Defense attorney David I. Bruck not a fan of the juror questionnaire. "Some of these questions are not very precise."#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 50m 50 minutes ago
He serves as an engineer team leader, and, "it's more of a collaboration than directing people."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 45m 45 minutes ago
Juror sitting back, kind of muffled voice. "I feel I've stated my position on this clearly," he says, when pushed by Bruck. Allowed to leave

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 44m 44 minutes ago
Juror 205 seems like a strong contender.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 45m 45 minutes ago
That's 100 jurors interviewed in person so far for #Tsarnaev case.

 

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Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 45m 45 minutes ago
Next is Juror 208, a tall young man, Asian.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 42m 42 minutes ago
Juror 208, a Chinese national. His dad is a doctor at a major Boston hospital where #BostonMarathonBombing victims were treated.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 43m 43 minutes ago
Juror 208, born in China, derived US citizenship from parents. Father is a physician at Mass General, since 2000. Didn't treat victims.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 40m 40 minutes ago
Went to Union College, undergrad thesis on modern trends in Islam, studied some Islamic jurisprudence. Says hasn’t revisited in a while.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 41m 41 minutes ago
His thesis was on modern trends in Islam. #Tsarnaev briefly checks him out.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 39m 39 minutes ago
... then turns away from him.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 37m 37 minutes ago
Weinreb wants the surfer dude sent packing. O'Toole keeps going.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 37m 37 minutes ago
Juror was saying he'd think Tsarnaev is guilty even if govt didn't prove it. Prosecutors agree to let him go.

 

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Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 36m 36 minutes ago
Juror 211, red hair, and a deep purple sweater. "Good morning," she says. Works for a local school district. special ed department.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 35m 35 minutes ago
She is a paraprofessional working with special education students in Lynn Public Schools. She is becoming a teacher.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 37m 37 minutes ago
"I'm getting my teacher's license soon, already passed all the tests, so," she says.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 30m 30 minutes ago
Tsarnaev sitting back in chair, reading some type of document. raises it to bring it closer to his eyes.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 30m 30 minutes ago
Juror seems nervous, asks judge to repeat question. Brushes flowing hair from front of face.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 24m 24 minutes ago
Juror 211 is struggling with questions. "This is the first time that I've really had to think about the death penalty." Gone. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 26m 26 minutes ago
Juror is struggling to answer some questions about ability to serve, and both sides agree to let her leave.

 

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Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 25m 25 minutes ago
Juror 215, a woman, comes in and sits down. "Thanks for your patience," judge says. Works part time small firm, pursuing accounting studies.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 23m 23 minutes ago
Juror 215, also a woman, is a part-time bookkeeper. Her brother is a public defender for the state.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 18m 18 minutes ago
She left survey question on death penalty blank. “I’ve never really had a situation where I’ve had to think about the death penalty.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 20m 20 minutes ago
#Tsarnaev, who was coughing Monday, may now have the sniffles. Throws used tissue on the trial table. Very listless today.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 16m 16 minutes ago
Tsarnaev essentially lies back in back of chair, head back. Miriam Conrad gives him a glance. He sits back up.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 14m 14 minutes ago
Juror saying she can remain open on case, death penalty, really because she hasn't thought about any of this before.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 7m 7 minutes ago
Juror 215 can't answer if she could have #Tsarnaev killed.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 12m 12 minutes ago
Weinreb asking, your beliefs aside, could you actually vote to kill someone? "I don't know," she says flatly.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8m 8 minutes ago
"If your conviction is the death penalty, could you vote to impose it?" Bruck asks.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8m 8 minutes ago
The juror stares off, pausing, nodding, for several seconds. Silence in the courtroom.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 7m 7 minutes ago
"I would like to think I could ...but there's a little piece inside me that says I'm not sure," she says. She's allowed to leave.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8m 8 minutes ago
With that, Judge taking an afternoon break

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 6m 6 minutes ago
30 minute break with 3 jurors to go. 3 @USMarshals move in to collect #Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
30 minute break announced; back at 1:30.
Three jurors left for the day.
#Tsarnaev

 

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Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
.@Beckyx1 Five jurors questioned so far today

Lana Jones @Lanawbz
#Tsarnaev voir dire is in a brief recess. Only 3 more potential jurors to be questioned today. That'll make it 105 total.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Break over; prosecutor Weinreb again asks judge to be more critical of the defense team's manner of questioning potential jurors. #Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 3m 3 minutes ago
Trial teams back at table with O'Toole and #Tsarnaev.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Back in #Tsarnaev, Weinreb asks that defense attorneys stop asking questions that explain how jurors deliberate, calls it "innappropriate."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Weinreb seems peeved that David Bruck was asking the engineer "team leader" if he could communicate/cooperate with other jurors.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 3m 3 minutes ago
Bruck says was concerned with juror's point of "reaching concensus"....says jurors have views, can't solve like "an engineering problem"

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Jurors r not in courtroom now.
Govt thinks def. team is asking questions to figure out which jurors might be "leaders" in deliberations.

Lana Jones @Lanawbz
Court has resumed in #tsarnaev. But instead of juror voir dire, Pros Wm Weinreb is asking judge not to suggest now delibs should take place.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
At issue: juror 205, who govt says was "pushed" by defense atty in attempt to sway his (possible, eventual) deliberative techniques.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 49s 49 seconds ago
Weinreb accuses defense attorney Bruck of trying to set the stage for a hung jury.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Judge says simply, let's not sway people

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Judge generally agrees with idea that this isn't the time to probe jurors' potential strategies for deliberation; says most r unfamiliar.

 

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Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Juror 223 is up. She is the first juror from the SECOND panel of people who filled out questionnaires (the PM session from 1/5)

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
223: financial analyst; worried about the impact on her life (kids, job) if called to serve. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Next is Juror 223, young Asian woman, strolls in sporting fashionable scarf.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 58s 58 seconds ago
Juror saying would be hardship serving and keeping up with job as a financial analyst, it would be "two full time jobs." Also has children.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
223: daughter is a high school junior; they wanted to visit colleges during school vacations this winter.
she's excused.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 26s 26 seconds ago
Juror 223, female, is a financial analyst in Quincy and has teenage children. She's allowed to leave.#Tsarnaev

Lana Jones @Lanawbz
Juror 223 Says serving would impact her job, her life. Coming here today meant she had to work late last night. #tsarnaev Dismissed.

 

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Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Juror #229: her husband is a financial advisor; she says "I don't know what she wants to do when I grow up" - she's a former social worker.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Juror 229, her own fashionable scarf, white, looks like some ruffles in there.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 28s 29 seconds ago
Her husband is a financial advisor, but her, “I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.” She was a social worker, organizes events.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
229: volunteers on a hotline for a North Shore domestic violence victims; also does event planning on the side.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 37s 37 seconds ago
"I don't know what I want to be when I grow up," she says to laughter. Husband is a personal wealth advisor.#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
229: uses Facebook "to kind of spy on my kids".
She's been a witness in other cases; family matter and when she was social worker.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Like several jurors today, 229 says she is "unsure" about #Tsarnaev being guilty and about his potential punishment. Doesn't trust media.

Lana Jones @Lanawbz
Juror 229 is an event planned who takes jobs according to her personal schedule. Unsure on #tsarnaev guilt, death penalty. Wary of media.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 25s 25 seconds ago
She's "jaded with the media," but does not explain other than to say, "There's always more."#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
"It's a weighty question, but I want to believe that yes I could," #229 says when asked if she can be impartial in this case. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 41s 41 seconds ago
“If it was myself, or someone I knew in this situation, I would want that fair trial.”

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
On issue of death penalty, 229 thinks it's "case by case";
Says she could vote for it or for life in prison for #Tsarnaev if he's guilty.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Prosecutors target 229's undergrad degree in psychology, asking what college classes she took. Turns out she focused on adolescents/teens.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
229 also has her Masters in Social Work; govt wants to see how/if her training/education might bias her thinking re: #Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 11s 11 seconds ago
Juror 229 previously did social work with troubled youth ages 13 to 18. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Steve Mellin asking about her experience in psych/social work. She's worked with adolescents, also helped with domestic violence support.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 14s 14 seconds ago
#Tsarnaev was 19 when he allegedly blew up three #BostonMarathon spectators and murdered an @MIT cop.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
229: as a social worker, i started off young, more liberal. but as i age, it's not black and white, my view on death penalty has evolved.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 1m 1 minute ago
Mellin wants to know if she can be independent on any psych testimony; "it was so long ago it probably seems like a lifetime ago."

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
That gets defense's attention. Atty Conrad asks immediately: what in your life made u change ur mind re: death penalty?
229: having kids.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 2m 2 minutes ago
She says she could sentence #Tsarnaev to death.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Evolution of dp view came after had kids. “I just wasn’t naïve…Sometimes bad things happen out there and there needs to be more consequence”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1m 1 minute ago
"Sometimes bad things happen and there needs to be more consequence," she says.#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
"From what I saw on TV, I suppose we knew that he was involved," 229 says of #Tsarnaev's involvement in #marathanbombing.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 38s 38 seconds ago
As for his guilt, "I suppose we knew he was involved."#Tsarnaev

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
229: I read that "his lawyers were trying to change the venue" because you were worried about people being prejudiced against him.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Defense is really digging in to 229, earning govt objections, which judge is largely sustaining.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 1m 1 minute ago
On her summons: "I'm supposed to go to Aruba in a couple months so I was like, wow."#Tsarnaev


Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
Juror leaves, points out the questionnaire itself was agreed upon by both sides, even w/ its flaws.
"That's not quite true," Conrad says.

Lana Jones @Lanawbz
Defense is parsing the language of the #tsarnaev jury questionnaire after pressing 229 on whether she's unsure of guilt or unsure of opinion

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
sorry, judge o'toole pointed out the questionnaire's history.
govt attys ask for sidebar before we move to the final juror for the day.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 2m 2 minutes ago
Miriam Conrad really wanted to go at that juror's beliefs. Mellin objecting. Judge lets juror go.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 3m 3 minutes ago
Tensions flare between O'Toole and Conrad over proper questions for jurors. #Tsarnaev seems to like it. Pool reporters sent out.

 

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Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
.@juanstie With no jurors in room, he's animated and engaged; when voir dire starts, he slumps back and generally keeps head down.

Jim Armstrong ✔ @JimArmstrongWBZ
So, sidebar ends with the word that we will NOT, in fact, hear from another juror today.
Court offers no more details.
That's it until Fri.

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