Breaking: Explosion Reported at Boston Marathon's Finish Line

[Peter Lemkin]

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Court appoints Jared Loughner's defense attorney for accused Boston bomber
By JOSH GERSTEIN |
4/29/13 5:34 PM EDT

Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has a new lawyer: a member of the defense team for Jared Loughner, the man convicted of killing six people at an outreach event for then-Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) in 2011.

In an order filed Monday afternoon, federal magistrate Marianne Bowler appointed Judy Clarke of San Diego to join three federal public defenders from Boston assigned to Tsarnaev's case. Bowler noted Clarke's extensive experience in death penalty cases and the potential that prosecutors could seek the death penalty against Tsarnaev.

"In light of the circumstances in this case, the defendant requires an attorney with more background, knowledge and experience in federal death penalty cases than that possessed by current counsel," Bowler wrote in her five-page order (posted here).

The addition of Clarke to Tsarnaev's defense is sure to fuel speculation that Clarke will seek to do for the Boston bombing suspect what she helped to do for Loughner: negotiate a guilty plea and sentence of life in prison in exchange for prosecutors agreeing not to seek the death penalty. That task seems harder in a high-profile case where the crime generated widespread public anger and outrage. But Clarke has done just that in other cases.

"They're looking into the lens of life in prison in a box," Clarke said of her clients in a recent speech, according to the Associated Press. "Our job is to provide them with a reason to live."

The Boston federal defenders had also asked to add another defense lawyer, David Bruck of Washington & Lee University Law School in Lexington, Va., but Bowler rejected that requestat least for now. "An additional attorney at this time is neither necessary nor required," she wrote. The magistrate said Clarke had more federal death penalty experience and should be adequate to the task at least until an indictment is filed in the case.

Adele

Sinister on the face of it...but it will escape notice of most People and all of the MSM. Another mini-Coup accomplished, I fear....one more step toward the total Police State. No trial [or only one to plea bargain or admit limited capacity, etc. will deny everyone the evidence and the Truth....exactly what those in power want.] Adele, while your point that keeping someone from death row and death may allow a future trial, I think those future trials almost by legal precedent will not allow anything but 'technical legal issues' - not the evidence as we commonly think of it [evidence and proof of guilt v. evidence and proof of innocence]. Seems like a specialty lawyer to me....more likely on the side of the prosecutor and those who might have pulled off the potential false-flag operation than the client, is am inclined to suspect.