A group of fiction writers in Catalonia reportedly sued for the Grade-B fiction of the Marathon story
by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
Jahar Tsarnaev (his tribe may now increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace
And saw within the moonlight in his cell
An angel writing in a book of gold.
Exceeding peace had made Tsarnaev bold
And to the presence in the room he said
“What writest thou?” The vision raised its head,
“I write the names of those who have had
their Death Sentence overturned.”
“And is mine one?” asked Jahar.
“Yes ’tis so.”
“OMG,OMG, that’s awesome! Then put me down as one who’s grateful to Judges of the First Circuit.”
Reuters:
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wins death penalty appeal
By Nate Raymond
BOSTON, July 31 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday overturned Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death penalty sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.
Tsarnaev and his older brother set off a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the world-renowned race, tearing through the packed crowd and causing many people to lose legs.
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld much of Tsarnaev's conviction but ordered a lower-court judge to hold a new trial strictly over what sentence Tsarnaev should receive for the death penalty-eligible crimes he was convicted of.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said his office is reviewing the decision and will have more to say "in the coming days and weeks." A lawyer for Tsarnaev did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
U.S. Circuit Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson, writing for the court, said that the trial judge "fell short" in conducting the jury selection process and ensuring it could winnow out partial jurors exposed to pretrial publicity surrounding the high-profile case.
Thompson said the pervasive news coverage of the bombings and their aftermath featured "bone-chilling" photos and videos of Tsarnaev and his brother carrying backpacks at the marathon and of those injured and killed near its finish line.
The trial judge allowed his jury to include jurors who had "already formed an opinion that Dzhokhar was guilty - and he did so in large part because they answered 'yes' to the question whether they could decide this high-profile case based on the evidence."
A federal jury in 2015 found Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts he faced and later determined he deserved execution for a bomb he planted that killed 8-year-old Martin Richard and 23-year-old Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu. Restaurant manager Krystle Campbell, 29, was also killed in the attack by a bomb placed by Tamerlan.
Tsarnaev's lawyers argued the case should not have been tried in Boston, where potential jurors were exposed to heart-wrenching, wall-to-wall media coverage about the attacks and the victims, many of whom lost limbs.
--End of excerpt from Reuters article
Comment from Mary Maxwell:
I am relieved to hear of this decision. It is a partial victory. Still much more to be done to get Bostonians up off the couch to understand that the whole thing was a classic false flag.
If you see notice of today’s court decision in your local newspaper or online news, would you kindly add a comment such as: “The real story contains many secrets, as exposed by Mary W Maxwell, LLB, in her new book The Soul of Boston and the Marathon Bombing. (free download).”
Additionally, dear friends, if you would write a review of that Marathon book at Amazon that would help a lot.
Many people are paid to squelch me. In 2013, I wrote what has to be the most important book on the suppression of cancer cures. The one-star review at Amazon says:
“Complete and utter drivel. If I could rate this poor excuse for a book with no stars, I would. This writer has no concept of real science or real evidence. She is an amateur, and an ignorant amateur at that, professing to opinions that are based on hopelessly out-of-date and obsolete data. She has no idea how to evaluate scientific research.
“From start to finish, the book is riddled with logical fallacies and misinterpretation of information. And to top it off, she has one of the most cloying, annoying, grating writing styles it has ever been my misfortunate to endure. Reading this book will only make you more ignorant, not less.”
That was “contributed” by J Phillps (No “Verified purchase”) whose only other Amazon reviews are for products.
Let me tell an interesting fact. If you see someone dump on a book that honors conspiracy, click on his name and see what else he has reviewed. I find that it’s usually products. Makes me wonder if Amazon, or someone else, pays people to push cosmetics or gadgets or whatever.
The said J Phillips has only ever given one book a review, mine (if you could call it a review), and he reviewed these products: a suitcase, a wallet, earbugs, a computer desk, an under-seat tote-bag, and a mousepad. Also this:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very pleased with these luggage tags Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2018
Color: Red. Verified Purchase
“We recently used these on a multiple location, multiple flight 3-week trip. They were easy to use. They appear to be waterproof and sturdy. The bright color helped spot our suitcases on the baggage carousel. I’m glad we bought them and would buy them again.”
Profound.
The Work of Tom Fontaine
For today’s article, I needed to check the correct spelling of the name of the Chief Judge of Appeals. It’s Juan Torruella, born 1933 (Ooo, maybe “33” means something). That caused me to go to the old
Gumshoe article “Buenos Dias, Your Honor.”
In those comments you will find mucho offerings from the work of Tom Fontane, a Vietnam-era vet. Many are from the police scans that Tom diligently recorded in real time in April 2013.
I did not come into the case till 2015 and have only concentrated on the court shenanigans. Whenever court shenaniganizes, I automatically know there is much falsity lurking.
Shaun Atwood’s Prison Advocacy
I wish Shaun Attwood could find an informant in Supermax n Colorado, as we have never heard from Jahar. Is he alive? Been doing time for 7 years.
I’ve recently read Shaun Atwood’s book (one of thirteen!) entitled Hard Time, about his misery in the Arizona jai. He is exceptionally attuned to the suffering of prisoners. It is a great book (“Verified purchase” – “and you may wish to consider this excellent battery-operated kettle”).
Even while incarcerated, Shaun snuck stuff out, back to England, so it could appear in a blog called Jon’s Jail Journal. Shaun’s advocacy will be more effective than any of his predecessors (Letter from Birmingham Jail was not about the jail per se), as he is a real felon (“verified”) and writes with fluency and is entertaining us daily with an agenda quite similar to Gumshoe’s.
Here, for example, he interviews Wilfred Wong. I was amazed to hear that Wong’s experience with Mums in UK court is straight out of the Dee McLachlan playbook. With one fascinating exception -- Wong says that the UK Mums specify SRA (satanic ritual abuse).
See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlgEvvG8v6c&lc=UgidkPPEWc6QAngCoAEC.7-H0Z7-HDpm9BqtFxKAylX
ReplyDeleteTV Five years ago: "No one can view the videos of the children speaking at different times, at different places, to different people in various "official" and unofficial capacities, to be fully convinced that substantially what they are saying is consistent, detailed and factually accurate. Nothing in the recorded interviews would indicate "coaching" as has been suggested. Indeed I would say that anyone claiming this must be immediately suspect, as it defies all logic and observation. I could give a long list of verbal and non verbal clues to the voracity of their claims but will spare you. They are there to see and I defy anyone to come to a genuine opposite opinion. Those that do, and those that persuaded the children to "retract" their statements, even should they understand such a term, have to be regarded with the greatest reservation as to whether they are, as legally obliged, working in the best interests of the children, or someone or something else. The case is shocking and deeply disturbing on at least two levels: the claims of the events themselves and the way it has been subsequently handled. Given the fact that there are apparently about 70,000 children in LA care, between 4 and 5000 of whom are adopted each year, and that much happens "under the radar" as recent cases have shown, this Hampstead case is perhaps unprecedented for its explicit and shocking nature only by virtue of the fact that the children can be seen speaking in unabashed, graphic detail. That the things described happen, is shocking enough but almost worse is the thought that investigating and prosecuting authorities appear to have "turned a blind eye" to them and have instead persecuted the innocent by seizing and removing the children from the rightful and caring parent, and then threatening both parent and representative to such an extent they are both forced to flee the country, This can only be described as a perversion of justice and due process, against which every right minded person has the right and duty to protest. Indeed to use a biblical phrase, if we were to remain silent, "the very stones would cry out". What has influenced the official stance of Police and Social Workers can only be guessed at. In any event it is deserving of thorough inquiry. In the meantime, as has been said, the priority should be to return the children without further delay to at least the grandparents. Not to do so is totally inhumane and proof, if proof were needed, that the British care system is not fit for purpose."