talk and losing their loved ones or losing their limbs and there was just nothing there. until we talk to the jurors we won t know how much that play add role in this but you know i have to believe it did. i mean we all, we here who attended this trial every day we saw the same person they did, and it was just so hard to fathom his inxrutscrutability played a role. and i don t need to tell you a rather liberal, progressive state, the death penalty is not supported. this, of course, is a federal case and so there is death penalty. right. in federal court. to be on this jury you had to not have an opinion about the death penalty. had you to be willing to dearcarry it out, if that s where the facts took you, but polls indicate it s not just martin richard s patients who didn t support the death penalty.
the deaths of lingzi lu and martin richard, unanimous, death. count nine bombing a public place resulting in the same deaths. unanimous, death. but in all of these three counts it doesn t refer to the death of sean collier, nor does it refer to the death of krystle campbell who was near the finish line and that s where tamerlan the older brother, dropped his bomb and it s very very interesting, because, you know we re trying to get a sense of whether any of the jurors bought the arguments made by the defense that if not for tamerlan none of this would have happened. it appears at least three jurors don t know which, don t know if they were the same at least three jurors believed that yes, if it were not for tamerlan this would not have happened that dzhokhar the younger brother, was susceptible to his brother, his personality and everything else about him and also it was done under tamerlan s influence. three jurors absolutely finding, yes, those mitigating factors
restaurant. the bomb that killed martin richard, killed lingzi lu they also found that he was involved in the death of krystle campbell and officer sean collier, but for the most part it appears at first glance that yeah that s exactly what they did. they were able to isolate those capital counts that they thought he should be put to death for, jake. and martin richard s family martin richard, the 8-year-old the innocent young boy so brutally murdered by the tsarnaevs that day, his family made it clear, i believe, deb, they did not support the death penalty, that was not something they were seeking. what was their reaction in the courtroom today? reporter: so interesting you mention that jake because they did. they wrote and op-ed basically saying no. send him to life in prison. we don t want to hear his name ever again. you put him to death, the process is dragged out, updates on the status filings, what they decide to do but they were
question by question. as they move from one section, it refers them to another. he s going to establish each of the four sections. first being that he was 18 years of age. the second section is the gateway factors. what do the gateway factors mean brooke? they dive a little bit deeper into the level of intent that tsarnaev had in committing these crimes. all they have to do is find one gateway factor. there are four that are listed and all they have to do is find one. i want to point out for everybody that s listening, during the closing arguments, the prosecution was masterful. they spent a ton of time talking about the fact that tsarnaev chose a spot right behind martin richard s family. martin richard is the 8-year-old killed during that attack and his sister had both of her legs
mel robins with us. i would love to hear from you as, you know not only an attorney but the only bostonian i have right now. you ve been living there, talking to people. how do you think this city will react to this? brooke you know i m just going to talk for myself personally because i m in a bit of a state of shock. it s never a good idea to predict the way that a jury s going to go but so much has been written locally, so much has been talked about locally about the fact that so many people in massachusetts are personally against the death penalty. it didn t seem like it would be a likely result. when you read that verdict, i just took a deep breath and the first thing that came to my mind were martin richard s family. they re not the only people that were clearly impacted.