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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:22 PM Apr 2013

WH he will not be tried as enemy combatant

BOSTON -- The White House said Monday that the surviving Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, would not be tried as an enemy combatant but would be prosecuted as a terrorist under civilian law.
White House spokesman Jay Carney's statement appeared to resolve several days of questions about what Tsarnaev's legal status would be. Carney cited a number of successful prosecutions in U.S. courts of terrorism suspects.
Seven days after the Boston Marathon bombings, the city was bustling Monday, with runners hitting the pavement, children walking to school and enough cars clogging the streets to make the morning commute feel almost back to normal in the hours before the traumatic week would be marked with mournful silence.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has asked residents to observe a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m. Monday, the time the first of the two bombs exploded near the finish line. Bells will toll across the city and state after the minute-long tribute to the victims.

http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_23079972/boston-bustling-week-after-bombing-moment-silence-at


Thank you Obama

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WH he will not be tried as enemy combatant (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Apr 2013 OP
I am hoping he will also be tried under state and local laws, preferably first in that(those?) byeya Apr 2013 #1
Agreed Ichingcarpenter Apr 2013 #2
Thought I read somewhere that bombings and terror pretty much make it a federal case? TwilightGardener Apr 2013 #3
I think you are right. MissB Apr 2013 #4
Yes--I don't think there's any good reason to make this guy an "enemy combatant", he'll TwilightGardener Apr 2013 #5
 

byeya

(2,842 posts)
1. I am hoping he will also be tried under state and local laws, preferably first in that(those?)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:24 PM
Apr 2013

venues.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
3. Thought I read somewhere that bombings and terror pretty much make it a federal case?
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:35 PM
Apr 2013

So I think he will be in federal court, and then federal prison.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
5. Yes--I don't think there's any good reason to make this guy an "enemy combatant", he'll
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:40 PM
Apr 2013

face justice the way he's supposed to, with no hinky unconstitutional BS.

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