boston marathon bombers dzhokhar and sample la tamerlan tsarnaevg to bomb other targets. high c profile attorney judy clk has joined dzhokhar s team, bringing the number of taxpayer funded attorneys that will represent him to four. how much more is he entitled to. joining me is criminal defense attorney and author of the new book, mistrial, mark geragos. mark, great to have you here. it s great to be here. mike: you understand and everyone gets it that a person is entitled to representation. how much? most people geti a public defender. this guy has already got four attorneys. whyli does he get four lawyers? i think the thinking is in a case like this that the prosecution has unlimited resources in terms of what they bring to bear, and so if you re ever going to get this case to trial and do it in a swift fashion, you need to have at least four lawyers to get up to
appointed, and you take a look at the clients that she s represented in the federal system, it is almost always somebody where guilt seems to be a foregone conclusion, and she comes in to see if she can save the person from the death penalty. now, if you want t t to talk aba waste of resources, i will tell you that the death penalty machinery in this country, and it s notc just me as a defense lawyer saying it, our former chief justice in california said it. it s broken. part of the reason that you have all of these resources is because we have a death penalty, because there s so many levels of review, and we end up spending ungodly amounts of money on these things when really, we ve got no reason to. mike: mark, how do you personally deal with a person that is a notorious defendant like dzhokhar is going to be? i mean, for most of us, this will be hard to understand. walk into the courtroom sitting with this. guy and having to defend him. how do you do that as a lawyer? i ve had c