Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Jury Trial - discussion *GUILTY*

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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 12m 12 minutes ago
Juror 547 walks into court clutching a tissue. Tells O'Toole she is nervous and will need to take something to stay calm if chosen.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 14m 14 minutes ago
Juror 547, a woman. Saying service would be difficult, she takes care of kids. She’s allowed to leave.

 

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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 13m 13 minutes ago
Needless to tweet, we move on to Juror 548.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 11m 11 minutes ago
Juror 548 is a legal assistant in a law firm that deals with employment law. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 13m 13 minutes ago
Juror 548, a woman. She’s a legal assistant at a small law firm, mostly employment, contracts, nothing criminal.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 11m 11 minutes ago
Her sister a nurse, formerly at Brigham. Worked emergency room, but away time of bombings. Used to volunteer Marathon medical tent, but away

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 10m 10 minutes ago
A family member usually volunteers at the #BostonMarathon finish line but was away in 2013.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8m 8 minutes ago
Presumes guilt. “If I have that opinion he’s guilty already, I don’t know how I could look at evidence they present +not still think that.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 7m 7 minutes ago
She declares #Tsarnaev guilty. "I don't think I could look at the evidence ... and not think that." Dismissed.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8m 8 minutes ago
She's allowed to leave.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6m 6 minutes ago
We are done for the day. Judge looked at questionnaires of other jurors and chose not to bring them today. So that's 13 today, 219 in total

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 5m 5 minutes ago
And apparently that's it for today. After 13 more jurors heard from we are up to 219 interviewed.#Tsarnaev
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Defense sets appeal for venue move in concrete

"...The opposing trial team and U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. have been setting the table for tomorrow’s appellate hearing with a blizzard of court filings. Prosecutors said a change of venue could set the capital terror trial back months. Tsarnaev, 21, the feds argue, “cannot seriously dispute the likelihood that even if this case is moved to another district, press attention will follow it, and additional requests for relief based on pretrial publicity are likely.”..."

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_op...efense_sets_appeal_for_venue_move_in_concrete

 

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Will the Boston Bomber Be Tried by a Jury of His Peers?
Selecting Fair-Minded Jurors Is Always Complicated. For a Raw, High-Profile Case Like This One, It’s Nearly Impossible.

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2...-be-tried-by-a-jury-of-his-peers/ideas/nexus/

 

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Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 10h 10 hours ago
Updating on Appeals Court story for #Tsarnaev arguments, but here's one note: Judge has provisionally found 61 qualified jurors. Needs 70.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
Day 21 of jury selection in trial of Dzhokhar #Tsarnaev is minutes away.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
As you'd expect, this morning's appellate change of venue hearing was packed. #Tsarnaev did not attend.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
The 45-minute proceeding was broadcast live to two other courtrooms and a long line formed early to get in.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
The big news to emerge during the court-imposed Twitter blackout: The #Tsarnaev trial teams have preliminarily qualified 61 jurors.

 

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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
Judge O'Toole wants at least 70. Today's #Tsarnaev pool reporters @Laurel_Sweet and @MiltonValencia told 9 have been called in today.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
Stop the presses: The 9 have already been cut to 6 - 5 men and 1 woman.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
About an hour after Appeals Court hearing ended, jurors are brought in for #Tsarnaev. We have six: Five men and one woman.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
#Tsarnaev flips up his black shirt collar under a charcoal gray jacket.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
The defense accused O'Toole at this morning's hearing of cutting them off when they've tried to probe juror bias.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
#Tsarnaev catches sight of today's cartoon ram on @Google on a lawyer's laptop and hones in like a heat seeking missile.

 

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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror 550 will be our 220th interviewed so far.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror 550 is a large black-skinned male self-employed as a landscaper.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror 550, younger man, one of few black men we’ve seen. Opened own landscaping/plowing biz. “I’ve had plenty of business last few weeks

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
He was called in because had other job, but just opened business. Says serving would spoil that biz, and he's allowed to leave.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
His job sets off immediate murmurs from the trial table as his work includes snow plowing. He is let go.#Tsarnaev

 

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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror 552 I mistook for Bob Kraft right down to his shirt and tie.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror 552, older, white-haired man. Wearing a tie. Retired. Had range of careers, mostly in telecommunications, then salesman, bus driver.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
He's actually retired from the telecommunications field and also drove a school bus at one point.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror 552 claims he has not made a judgment about #Tsarnaev. He does feel serving life would be worse than death.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
"But if the evidence were there, I could impose the death penalty."#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror wrote “unsure” on presumption, saying all he knows is what's been "on the airwaves."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
“I just have a notion that each individual is innocent until proven guilty and I haven’t seen a single piece of evidence in this case.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror says open to death penalty, adds, “I actually think life in prison is a worse situation conceivably than being put to death.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
“If the evidence was there to support the death penalty, I could impose the death penalty,” juror says. “I would consider either option.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
#Tsarnaev looks across the table at Aloke Chakravarty as the prosecutor talks to the juror about his "characteristics."

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror tells defense: "I'm open to the possibility that there were other circumstances involved .."#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
This interview has taken a bizarre turn: Juror talking about how he was a victim of arson and a stick of dynamite.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
We’re now talking about Supreme Court Justice Souter’s views on eminent domain. “I thought that was something of an overreach of the law."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror saying he knew of a case of it in New Hampshire, and government was just asking if that made him mistrust govt. He says no.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
Story up>>>>Tsarnaev lawyers urge appeals court to move trial outside Boston http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...aQ1L71i0WIs3hcdMLY8L/story.html?event=event25 … via @BostonGlobe

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
"My impression was he was certainly there that day” But as juror “I’m open to possibility there were other circumstances I may not know of”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror asked for example of false media reports and he tells story of how he was an arson victim, local reporter suggested he did it

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
Conrad was asking juror about his service: “I wanted to do my civic duty. I didn’t want to do it this way,” says to laughs. Allowed to leave

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
Clerk just opened back door to jury room, and we could see outside, and see all the snow. Bunch of sighs. #Tsarnaev

 

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Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror 555, an older, white-haired woman, works in kitchen of Israel Deaconess hospital, but not one in Boston.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
Juror 555. an older woman with arthritis, remarks the jury chairs look comfy.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
She preps room service food for patients of Beth Israel Deaconness Hospital at a suburban campus.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 9h 9 hours ago
She is "unsure" how culpable #Tsarnaev is. "I know he was with his brother.'I don't know exactly what he did."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
“I don’t know if he’s guilty or not, so I wrote unsure…. I don’t know what he did.” Said something about #Tsarnaev’s brother.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 9h 9 hours ago
“All I saw was he was on the street, with a backpack, but what have I seen? I haven’t seen anything.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror: "I would want to do to people what I would want done to me, and I would want the death penalty."#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
"I can't even breathe thinking about staying in a cell 40 or 50 years." #Tsarnaev reaches for a glass of water, rolls his shoulders.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror open but prefers death. “I would not want to be in a prison cell for 40 years...I just can’t do to people what I wouldn’t want myself"

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror speaking to this>>>>Tsarnaev jurors have differing views on death as ultimate price http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...E2toBdVs5vD7Ukf1CcHL/story.html?event=event25 … via @BostonGlobe

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
#Tsarnaev seems interested in this juror, stealing glances. She's allowed to leave.

 

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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror 557, a middle-aged man, laughs out loud at the notion he could squeeze his demanding job into one day a week.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror 557, a big guy, middle aged. Just got new role with company, management position. Fears service would mix that up. Judge moves on.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror saying believes guilt. “It affected my business, my friends from various towns. So I followed it completely…I formed an opinion.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
“I think it would be unbelievably unlikely I would change my opinion based on what I’ve heard.” He's allowed to leave.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
Still wondering what he does. Pool banished for sidebar.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
It doesn't matter. He just convicted #Tsarnaev and was sent on his way.

 

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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror 563 is a public school teacher and pool betting he's popular. Very funny and outgoing. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror 563, wavy hair, beard. leans in to mic. “Can everybody hear me OK?” He’s a public school teacher.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror, was a broadcast journalism major, but prefers print. “I may be the only person alive who gets the paper delivered to their house.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
If this were a TV show, he would be cast as the brilliant offbeat computer geek. And he reads the @bostonherald!#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror saying he wanted "to get out of town" that Friday after bombings, went to Ben & Jerry's in Vermont, a craft brewery nearby.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
His wife is a professor at Roger Williams University. #Tsarnaev has sunk low in his chair.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
An American history teacher, he was on school vacation and mowing his lawn when the bombings occurred.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
He has worn rubber #BostonStrong bracelets and changed his @facebook page photo to #BostonStrong briefly.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror saying he likes to read all media, to get full story, points to #Deflategate as overhype

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
He is an American History professor, wife a professor in American Studies. Knows principle of innocence of presumption.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
He got some Boston Strong bracelets, wore a few days, but, “I know it was not longterm.” Also Facebook pic was a Boston Strong pic, long ago

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
The death penalty “was the hardest question in this whole thing.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Says his concerns with death penalty are more about application: The subjectivity of it, when there’s poor representation, faulty evidence.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
He’d support when appropriate, though, only concern is: “Did the defendant receive what was deserved, which was a fair trial.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Mellin wanting to know if, theory aside, can you hand out death sentence? “I have thought of that, and I believe I can.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror saying no concerns of representation: “The def seems to be getting what is due to him under law. He's going to get a vigorous defense”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror says death appropriate at times, but personally “As a society, I feel we should not be in the market of executing people. In general.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
Teacher is against the death penalty.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
He could impose death if he thought #Tsarnaev had "a fair trial."

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
His classes include a lesson on the death penalty.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror says #Tsarnaev "seems to be receiving what is due to him under our laws" compared to lawyers "who are phoning it in."

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
#Tsarnaev weaves his fingers into his hair, slowly drags his hand down the back of his neck.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
He's allowed to leave.

 

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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror 567 will be our final heard today and the 225th overall.#Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror 567 is an air traffic controller for the @USCGNortheast.#Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror 567, a man. Middle-aged, bald with a goatee. He’s an air traffic controller, private contractor working for US Coast Guard in Cape.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror saying, “I don’t particularly follow the television or news media, because I think they’re particularly slanted, full of politics.”

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror 567 thinks local media, talk radio, is "pretty slanted and full of politics."#Tsarnae

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
"I don't believe we're getting the best bang for our buck in terms of information." #Tsarnaev

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
He recalls thinking after the bombings, "Man, I would not want to be that guy." Attorney Miriam Conrad gives #Tsarnaev a sideways glance.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror saying he’s seen enough to think #Tsarnaev was there, but that’s it. Would remain open to hear evidence.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
On death penalty, “I just believe, not necessarily an eye for an eye, but that it’s an option on the table…I would support that.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
Juror explaining what he meant when saying, "I wouldn't want to be that guy," when heard bombing suspect arrested. Says he meant what it is.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 8h 8 hours ago
That is it for day, that makes 225 jurors.

Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 8h 8 hours ago
That concludes today's public proceedings. #Tsarnaev takes his time exiting for security team. a mischievous smile on his face.
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Milton Valencia retweeted
Kevin Cullen @GlobeCullen · 7h 7 hours ago
Appealing to reason in Tsarnaev case http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...SZGrGUjVDML15relXntO/story.html?event=event25 … via @BostonGlobe

Milton Valencia retweeted
J.M. Lawrence @BostonJustice · 6h 6 hours ago
For true #Tsarnaev trial junkies: audio of appeals court arguments today. http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/files/audio/15-1170.mp3 …

 

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Tsarnaev Attorneys to Appeals Court: Public’s Faith in Justice at Risk

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/...eys-appeals-court-publics-faith-justice-risk/
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Tsarnaev Lawyers Ask US Appeals Court to Move Bombing Trial

http://www.theledger.com/article/20150219/news/150219210?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Laurel J. Sweet @Laurel_Sweet · 4h 4 hours ago
Prosecutors and defense attorneys for Dzhokhar #Tsarnaev are filing supplemental materials to judges weighing change of venue. All sealed.

WBUR Live @wburLive · 9h 9 hours ago
No technology was allowed in the appeals court, but here's the audio recording for yesterday's proceedings. http://media.ca1.uscourts.gov/files/audio/15-1170.mp3 … #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 7h 7 hours ago
We have been let into the #Tsarnaev courtroom and we will be hearing from 11 potential jurors today.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 7h 7 hours ago
In courtroom for today with @wburLive, waiting for judge and jurors for #Tsarnaev case. Told there are 11 today.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
We've seen 225 jurors over 18 days of voir dire. At least 61 provisionally qualified for final panel, before peremptories. Judge wants 70.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Jurors have entered the room for #Tsarnaev proceedings. We have six men and five women.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
#Tsarnaev was animated, chatty with lawyers before proceedings began. He has now settled into his typical posture, shifting into his chair.

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Judge O'Toole has entered the courtroom and begins addressing the potential jurors for #Tsarnaev trial.

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Jurors are sent out and Judge O'Toole moves down to the main table. #Tsarnaev

 

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WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
First up is juror 577. #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 577 is an older asian woman. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 577, an older, gray-haired Asian woman. “I’m going on a cruise, end of May, for two weeks.” “Is it paid for?” “Yes.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Judge asking if she can reschedule, she says no. “We can’t guarantee this case will be completed by then…I think it’s best not to proceed.”

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 577 has a cruise booked for May. #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 577 is allowed to leave. #Tsarnaev

 

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Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 579, younger man. Saying he’s one who drops kids off at day care. “We would have to find another solution to get the kids to day care"

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 579 is concerned about the case schedule conflicting with his child care responsibilities. #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
The judge tries to tell juror 579 that our train system would be a great way for him to get in for #Tsarnaev trial if selected to serve.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
"I’m just thinking with Boston traffic." Judge says won't take that long to get here, especially in spring, and trains will work someday.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
His wife works in finance at MIT. He works in pension benefit analysis. #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 579's wife works at MIT in the budgeting department. He works as a team leader for pension analysts. #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Prosecutor Weinreb has entered the courtroom and is sitting nearby @miltonvalencia. #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 579 says he can set aside his opinion that #Tsarnaev is guilty because everything outside the courtroom "is not relevant."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror checked box that Tsarnaev guilty, able to put presumption aside. He’s been a juror in a state criminal case, about five years ago.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
“I just think the case...is different the case ... is going to be judged by the facts + evidence...Everything outside is just not relevant.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror saying some friends/family were in shelter in place, his sister-in-law’s boyfriend was at finish line but they haven’t spoken about it

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
His wife works at MIT, “did not know Sean, but she was severely impacted by it.” All went into office, idea of loss of life troubled her.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Lawyers are agreeing, she's allowed to leave.

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
All the lawyers agree and juror 579 is sent out. #Tsarnaev. Juror 580 is up.

 

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WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 580 is a laborer. He picks things up and drops them off. He would get paid if selected for #Tsarnaev jury.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 580, a bear of a man. Has a winter beard. He’s a laborer for a distribution company. “I pick things up and put them down.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror had checked that he's a published author, and he explains it was a comic book he put out at age 18. Nothing since. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
His brother was a prison officer, now Boston firefighter, doesn’t think he responded to explosions “and if he was I’ve never heard about it”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
On guilt, wrote, unsure, “I always believe a person is innocent until proven guilty.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Would tell people to hold judgment. “You don’t want to sentence someone to death or something like that, until you know all the facts."

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
His family members bought some Boston Strong merchandise, but not him.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
“There’s definitely some people out there who have done some horrible things, where people even like me can say that person deserves to die"

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror calling this the “hot seat, saying “A decision like this is monumental, taking someone’s life.” #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
“Can you do that, sit in the hot seat,” the prosecutor asks. “I can do the right thing, at least what I think is the right thing.”

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 580 compares the concept of 'innocent until proven guilty' to the presidency. #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 580 has a few reservations about the death penalty, "there's no coming back from it. That's final." #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 580 on life in prison: "They get to live, but I don’t know if that’s living.” #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 580: "A decision like this is monumental. Deciding someones fate." #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
He's allowed to leave.

 

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Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 588, a woman, works at Barnes & Nobles book store, in the digital section. Sells things like tablets.

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
After a brief sidebar we now have juror 588. #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 588 works at Barnes & Nobles. She is a digital sales lead and sells tablets. #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror 588 says that finding out what happened is "the point of the trial." #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 6h 6 hours ago
J588 is "personally opposed [to the death penalty] it is an option under the law which must be considered in applicable crimes.” #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
She checked unsure on guilt, death penalty. “The media is all about ratings.” Can’t trust them.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
“You don’t know if someone is guilty or not until the case is over, that’s kind of a point of a trial.” #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Her friends have Boston Strong merchandise, but she doesn’t. She did watch the Boston Strong concert, though, on livestream TV.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 6h 6 hours ago
Juror saying opposed to death penalty, but understands it’s law. Can use “when it’s meant to be used. I can’t ignore it cuz I don’t like it”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
Doesn’t trust media, War on Terror. “They try to keep it on people’s minds when it doesn’t need to be. I think the media has overblown it”

WBUR Live @wburLive · 5h 5 hours ago
That's all for juror 588. Next up juror 597 #Tsarnaev

 

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WBUR Live @wburLive · 5h 5 hours ago
Juror 597's husband is a retired anesthesiologist. He worked at Mass General and teaches at Harvard Medical School. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
Juror 588 is a young woman, bangs and glasses. Sitting poised. #Tsarnaev leaning away in chair, slouching.

WBUR Live @wburLive · 5h 5 hours ago
Juror 597 is a personal assistant for a professor at Harvard. "He thinks I'm a computer genius." #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
Her husband is undergoing chemo therapy. She's been there for support. Other times, she works as an assistant to a Harvard professor.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
Politically, she’s been involved with local town’s League of Women Voters. Biggest political issue: septic systems.

WBUR Live @wburLive · 5h 5 hours ago
Juror 597 was also the president of the League of Women Voters for her town. Big issues: septic systems. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
“I think I could be fair but I do have this image in my mind I can’t deny: the image of him putting that backpack behind that little boy”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
With that said, she’s make prosecutors prove that he did it in trial. #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 5h 5 hours ago
Juror 597: "I do have this image in my mind that I can’t deny. The image of him putting the backpack by that little boy.” #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
Pros asks, given your general opposition, could you actually vote “yes” on death: She has biases against it but, “I think so..prefer not to”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
“Knowing yourself, could you actually check that box?” “Maybe, but I’m going to have to say less likely.” #Tsarnaev

WBUR Live @wburLive · 5h 5 hours ago
Juror 597 has told others she thought #Tsarnaev was guilty, "I didn’t see how he was anything but guilty.”

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
Juror saying, “Everybody talked about it, and I don’t see how he’s not guilty.” But saying she can wait on evidence. #Tsarnaev.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
Bruck trying to disqualify juror: 4 months would be lengthy for her trial, her husband’s chemo treatment. She supported Boston Strong events

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
“I don’t think I can go into (the trial) absolutely knowing, no,” she tells Miriam Conrad, on whether made up mind. She's allowed to leave.

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
She's allowed to leave.

WBUR Live @wburLive · 5h 5 hours ago
That's all for juror 597. We are now taking a 10 minute break. #Tsarnaev

Milton Valencia @MiltonValencia · 5h 5 hours ago
We're taking a 10 min break to switch court reporters. #Tsarnaev didn't plan to leave courtroom, but chooses to for bathroom break.