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April 15th marks two significant\xa0events in US history: the 11th anniversary of Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev's bombing of the Boston Marathon, and the first day of jury selection in\xa0 the first criminal trial of a former US President. These two very different situations both share one important legal question: how do you select a jury from a city full of people who not only know a\xa0defendant by name but have good reasons to despise them?

Boston residents Matt and Casey share their own\xa0memories of the day\xa0that changed their city forever before breaking down\xa0the trial of surviving bomber\xa0Dzhokar Tsarnaev and ensuing appeals of his death sentence\xa0to the 1st\xa0Circuit and Supreme Court. We examine why the U.S.\xa0publicly announced that it would not be reading\xa0Tsarnaev his Miranda rights, and debate whether or not the\xa0defense should have been allowed to introduce evidence during the penalty phase that Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have participated in a triple homicide two years earlier to prove his influence over his younger brother.\xa0What can Clarence Thomas's decision reinstating Tsarnaev's death sentence tell us about how Trump trial judges might\xa0handle jury selection? And what might be next following the 1st Circuit's recent findings on juror bias?

1)\xa0U.S. v. Tsarnaev indictment\xa0

2)\xa0Middlesex District Attorney's report on Watertown PD's shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers

3) 1st Circuit's decision vacating Dzhokar Tsarnaev's death sentence\xa0(7/31/2020)

4)\xa0Supreme Court decision reinstating Tsarnaev's death sentence\xa0\xa0(3/5/2022)

5)\xa0Most recent 1st Circuit decision ordering further hearing on juror bias (3/21/2024)

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