Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a confrontation with police in Watertown days after the fatal blasts. A Boston police officer died a year later from injuries he sustained in that shootout. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently being held at a federal supermax prison in Colorado. Oral arguments in his appeal are slated for December. Ted had been legally cornered.
Defending him was never going to be easy. The evidence was overwhelming. From the strict isolation of his small cabin in Lincoln, Montana, he had painstakingly built and mailed bombs that had killed 3 people and injured 23 others. Once a precocious math student with advanced degrees, Kaczynski had become one of the most deliberate killers in history.
He had drawn up a detailed manifesto with numbered paragraphs that he blackmailed The Washington Post and The New York Times into publishing by threatening to continue killing if they did not. The tract was a far cry from incoherent, though it was certainly turgid and extreme, arguing that the steady march of modern technology, industry, and socialization was profoundly dehumanizing and was destroying the possibility of happiness.
Here was a man who had carefully thought through his reasons for murder and then carried out his attacks with great deliberation over a period of years.
His crimes fell well within at least two of the modern criteria for capital punishment: premeditation and multiple victims. His trial was almost certain to end in a sentence of death. He could avoid it by pleading guilty and accepting life in prison without hope of appeal, pardon, or parole, which he did not wish to do. Or he could proceed to trial and let Clarke and the other lawyers present the defense they had painstakingly prepared in the 21 months since his capture—an approach he had just realized would portray him as mentally ill.
Kaczynski would later accuse Clarke of having deceived him about this until shortly before the trial. Clarke did not respond to requests for an interview. For this murderously proud man, something more than personal humiliation was at stake. An insanity defense would forever color his theories as madness. And, for him, his ideas were the important thing. They were why he had killed.
He was prepared to die for them. David had mixed feelings about the trial. He himself had led the F. Of course, Judy as an attorney is trying to use her best influence with Ted to save his life, and here it was kind of falling apart at this critical moment. She could have been just really frustrated.
She could have [felt], My client is taking himself down despite all my planning and best efforts to save his life. Such a trial would be a charade, she said. She and her team would not take part. Back in the courtroom, as Ted listened to Burrell deny his request, Clarke raised one hand and rested it gently on his shoulder. She knew, as David did, what a blow this was to him. Within hours he would attempt to hang himself in his cell.
He is still complaining about it—that was the point of his letter to me. To touch him. Clarke, pictured with another lead defense attorney Quinn Denver, exiting the courthouse in the Ted Kaczynski trial in Compassion, the thing David Kaczynski saw in her, cannot by itself explain Judy Clarke.
In that interview with the law-school magazine, Clarke spoke of teaching students to act in the best interests of their client—and of their cause. If Clarke is compassionate and kind, she is also defiant and committed. This is no marshmallow.
Which may not be immediately apparent to look at her. She is surprisingly tall and lean, a lifelong runner.
She wears her straight brown hair short and flat. She eschews makeup and for court has always dressed in a perfectly sensible female version of standard lawyerly attire, a conventionally cut wool suit, knee-length skirt and jacket, over a cotton shirt buttoned at the collar and a big, floppy, silk bow tie, which became her signature if, for many years, only because most women had stopped wearing them 20 years ago.
Friends recently tried to talk her out of the bow ties, but she said she could not be bothered. Knowing exactly what to put on each morning saved her from having to think about it, she explained, but in Boston, during the early stages of the Tsarnaev trial, the bow tie was gone, replaced by a black turtleneck or simply an open collar.
Her manner, like her choice of clothing, is deliberately understated. In photos she often looks pensive, even severe, eyes averted, mouth pursed, but her friends say she is the opposite in private: animated, with a warm sense of humor, someone who enjoys lifting a beer and telling a story, someone who laughs often.
In court she is more earnest than clever. She impresses more with impeccable preparation and sincerity than with oratory. With judges and juries and before a classroom, her tone is conversational, genuine, and direct. She is, all in all, more inclined to listen than to speak. And yet argument is a big part of her character. Judy Clarke grew up one of four children in Asheville, North Carolina, part of an extended family of Republicans fond of spirited disputation.
Parents, grandparents, and siblings would gather for supper around a large custom-built oak table, where opinions kept easy pace with the corn bread and gravy. From about the sixth or seventh grade, I wanted to become either the chief justice of the Supreme Court or Perry Mason. One summer when I was young, my mother wanted to teach my sister [Candy] and I crocheting and the Constitution.
She says that for my sister, the crocheting stuck, and for me, the Constitution stuck. Childless, she has earned a reputation through a long career for working heroically long hours and for pushing her staff with unrelenting, almost martial discipline. Those so inclined were encouraged to join her at dawn for a daily four-mile run.
Supreme Court— United States v. German Munoz-Flores. In the end she lost the case, but she enjoyed the scrap. I like the adversarial nature of the business. I love all of that. To her, this devotion to civil liberties is deeply rooted in her conservative upbringing. Clarke bristled in that interview at being characterized as a liberal.
You associate that with a liberal view of a lawyer. Clarke first came to national attention in , when she helped defend Susan Smith. It was quite a year. More Videos Boston bombing trial: Life or death?
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Tsarnaev carried one of the pressure cooker bombs on April 15, , and placed it near the finish line, she said. He was there when a police officer was killed. He was involved in a shootout with police.
The accused bomber will not sidestep any of his actions, Clarke said. So, why even a trial at all? Read More. Because there's disagreement over why Tsarnaev did it, Clarke said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was influenced by his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Clarke said. He was enlisted by his brother to commit these horrific acts, she said. The first day of the trial provided jurors with a peek at the strategies of the prosecution and defense.
Based on their opening statements, both sides agree on the basic facts around the attacks -- who carried them out and how. But both sides presented divergent views of why Dzhokhar Tsarnaev carried out the attacks. The goal of the Tsarnaev brothers was to kill as many people as possible, U. The prosecutor described in detail the deaths of three victims near the finish line of the Boston Marathon and painted a picture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a holy warrior committed to violence. More than others were maimed or injured by two pressure cooker bombs that exploded within 12 seconds of each other.
Photos: The Tsarnaev case: His family, friends. Dzhokhar "Jahar" Tsarnaev is on trial in the Boston Marathon bombings. He is charged with 30 federal counts stemming from the attack.
He has pleaded not guilty. Hide Caption. Elder brother and Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev died April 19, , following a shootout with police. His brother tried to free him with a stolen SUV but ran him down instead, according to an indictment against the younger Tsarnaev. Anzor and Zubeidat Tsarnaev are the parents of the Tsarnaev brothers.
The two divorced in , and both now live in the Russian republic of Dagestan.
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