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Marathon Killers Apprehended: the Aftermath

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Depends how the lawyers play it out. Thought 1 is to blame the dead brother for everything. Step 2 is to plead guilty in exchange for life. Step 3 is to make the trial a political manifesto and then the needle.

Anyone think the trial will be in Boston or someplace removed like Pittsfield?
I don't see any way the trial could be in Boston.
 
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Yes, those Federal public defenders are such scumbags... :rolleyes:

mookie just read that as ALL lawyers are scum bags :D

"his scum bag lawyers"
"their scum bag lawyers"
"those scum bag lawyers"
 
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mookie just read that as ALL lawyers are scum bags :D

"his scum bag lawyers"
"their scum bag lawyers"
"those scum bag lawyers"
What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean??

A good start.
 
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What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean??

A good start.

My favorite is the one about the devil materializing before a lawyer. And he tells him: "I'll make you the best lawyer in the world. I'll make you the richest lawyer in the world. I'll make you the most sexually desirable lawyer in the world. And all I want in return are the immortal souls of your wife and children to torture in h*ll forever." After a long pause, the lawyer says: "What's the catch?"
 
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What can a goose do, a duck can't, and a lawyer should?

Stick his bill up his ***.
 
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What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean??

A good start.
Lawyer at the beach, buried up to his head in sand, whats missing? Another truck load of sand
 
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Lawyer at the beach, buried up to his head in sand, whats missing? Another truck load of sand

Two lawyers are walking down the street and they see a beautiful woman walking toward them.
The first lawyer says, "see that woman? Boy, would I lover to screw her.
The second lawyer says, "out of what?"
 
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Somebody should save that piece, to compare with the courthouse steps bloviations of his scum bag lawyers.

And what "scumbag" defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre case? And got them acquitted!
 
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The bombs killed people. Who is responsible, the person who built it, the person who placed it, the person who procured the materials, the person who drove it to the site, the person who funded the activity, the person who looked up how to build it, the person who shopped and cooked the food they ate while building the bomb?

Not sure I agree with the "she didn't kill anyone" line of thinking.

She never took the "last act" (i.e. pulling the trigger/detonating the device/etc.). I fully agree that she was culpable and deserved to go to prison; however, she did not kill anyone because she never took that last act regardless of her intent. That is why she was charged with (and rightfully convicted of) Felony Murder as opposed to a different form of murder/homicide.

Imagine this hypothetical. Two people (A and B) conspire to rob the bank. They recruit a third person (C) to come pick them up at a specific time/place following the robbery. For this hypothetical, C knows A and B's plan to rob the bank, including the fact that A and B will not have a weapon of any sort. A and B go to the Bank, tell the teller that they have a bomb placed in the bank, and to fill a bag full of money. After getting the bag of money, A and B run out of the Bank. While running out, an undercover cop pulls out a gun, and fires at A and B. The shot ricochets off the floor, and kills innocent bystander D. A and B then successfully get out of the bank, and meet up with C who drives them to their getaway location.

Is C a killer?

What if A and B planned to use weapons and C knew about the use of those weapons, is C now a killer?

What if A and B planned to use weapons but C didn't know about that part of it, is C now a killer?

What if it was A that fired at the cop, and killed D, is C now a killer?

What if instead D dying, the teller has a heart attack and dies after hearing A and B's request...is C now a killer?

In short, depending on the state, C may be convicted of felony murder in all of these scenarios. However, in no way was C the killer in any of these scenarios.
 
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Two lawyers are walking down the street and they see a beautiful woman walking toward them.
The first lawyer says, "see that woman? Boy, would I lover to screw her.
The second lawyer says, "out of what?"

I got a funny one...

A very very old, senile man named Oldrich Pioski is so upset after his favorite hockey team fired their legendary hockey team that he downs two bottles of a regal liquor. In the ensuing hours, Pioski blacks out from the alcohol intake. He wakes up in jail, accused of public intoxication, although he never remembers leaving his house.

Who should he call first?

His lawyer.

:p:D:D
 
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The NY Post's track record on this story has been terrible so far; if this detail is correct, it's a new wrinkle I hadn't heard before. Another clever tactic!


Officers cornered the SUV, but the perps started tossing out explosives. One of the cops then put his cruiser in gear, got out and let it slowly roll toward the suspects with no one inside, hoping to draw them out.

The move worked — Tamerlan fired and quickly ran out of bullets and was tackled. His brother drove over him, likely killing him, as he fled.
 
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The NY Post's track record on this story has been terrible so far; if this detail is correct, it's a new wrinkle I hadn't heard before. Another clever tactic!

That would be very interesting, and I would be curious if the officer was trained to do so or was simply a moment of brilliance.
 
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She never took the "last act" (i.e. pulling the trigger/detonating the device/etc.). I fully agree that she was culpable and deserved to go to prison; however, she did not kill anyone because she never took that last act regardless of her intent. That is why she was charged with (and rightfully convicted of) Felony Murder as opposed to a different form of murder/homicide.


Are you sure you have all the details? She was driving a van with others in the back. the police pulled over the van and had their guns trained on her when she got out. She pleaded with them to lower their weapons. When they did, the others jumped out of the van and slaughtered the police. So, speaking metaphorically, she never actually pulled the trigger, she merely aimed the gun and held it while someone else pulled the trigger? and somehow this technicality makes a difference because?

Jack McCoy always said that the bullet followed the intent. I know that's just television, but if his assertion is true....
 
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