watching dzhokhar tsarnaev sitting in the courtroom listening to what his future is going to be, if he does get life in prison and if he is sentenced to that. also, look, think about what s going through his head. you can t possibly imagine, but he really seems to have almost checked out. he s listened to this. he knows what his future is and neither option is particularly interesting. laid out, the reason the defense wants to bring in this nun, would create sympathy for dzhokhar tsarnaev. i m confused. isn t that what they are trying to do all along. they called some 40 witnesses, called in relatives from russia, classmates testifying he s impressionable and this was kind of brainwashing from his older brother trying to create sympathy. why do you think there s so much being made about this one witness? because admitting her testimony would be a very close call under the rules. the federal rules of evidence do not apply in federal death
sure. as i said before, the city was in flames. the city could have been in far worse condition if there had been no charges. now the charges are brought, the city calmed down. can you prove them against each individual officer. the behavior of each officer and mind-set of each officer put under a microscope. i can imagine each officer if they choose to testify, look, this is what i knew. this is what nobody told me. i had no idea this person was in the kind of condition he was in. maybe they got calls to go somewhere else and they thought there was an emergency. i don t know what the evidence is going to be. i think a civil suit against the police department is going to be a lot easier than proving a criminal case against each individual officer. it s not going to be easy. second degree murder against a police officer is going to require a lot of proof, a lot of very damaging evidence. you re going to have to get into this person s mind as to what they were thinking and why. it s no