Jury Not Swayed by Defense Argument Brother Influenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Mark Pearlstein noted that, although Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers asserted that his older, radical brother Tamerlan pushed him into the Boston Marathon bombing, “There’s no doubt that the ‘Tamerlan made me do it defense’ completely did not persuade” the jury against imposing a death penalty for the crime. Read the full article