successful public defender in the nation in terms of helping high-profile clients avoid the death penalty. she is judy clark and has handled several high protile death penalty casesment automatic of her clines received life sentences, including the arizona shooter, loughner, ted kaczynski, and susan smith who drowned her two children in south carolina. a public defender means the public will pay for his defense and many have found our they have been supporting the family for years for a total of roughly $100,000. dzhokar and his brother tamerlan did not directly received benefits but their parents did for years, and that means the suspected bombers indirectly received benefits as well, from 2002 to 2004, and again from 2009 through 2011, and tamerlan received benefits through his wife, katherine russell, in cash and food stamps, from september
shepard: thanks, catherine. the surviving suspect, dzhokar tsarnaev just got a new attorney, month the defendants she had let represented. in the unibomber, ted kozinski, and jarred loughner who shot congresswoman gabrielle giffords in tucson. both killers were spared the death penalty and are serving life sentences instead. she s good. she is supposed to be good but she supposed to be really good at negotiating life sentences. not i m sure she has trial experience, but she goes in there as the closer. she is going to try to save this kid s life, most likely in exchange for all of the information that he can possibly have to help us against any future terrorist attacks. shepard: is that process underway? it s got to be. especially since once this kid was mirandaizeed he shut up.
the boston marathon bombing. female dna was found on one of the bombs. the dna could be from many sources, but they are considering the possibility of it belonging to the widows of one of the bombing suspects. the surviving suspect s remains are in federal prison. they have begun talking about a plea deal where he could avoid the death penalty in return of an account of what happened and why. we have an experienced death penalty attorney. they have big time criminals including the unibomber and jarrett loughner. turning to syria, most americans continue to say the u.s. does not have a responsibility to intervene in syria according to the latest news and new york times poll. the poll shows 62% of americans
loughner. they assumed it was a terror attack and inspired by a right wing to attack a congresswoman. that was false. so you have to establish it was a political one. probably is but we re not sure yet. bill: i m glad you and i agree on those two aspects regarding president obama. here is where we disagree. i believe u.s. intelligence has done a good job in protecting the nation, but you don t see it quite that way, correct? they have done a very good job in protecting us from post-9/11 terror attacks. in fact one of the reasons there was such shock and dismay, yesterday as a result of this, this is the first time. this is the first time there has been a successful bombing attack
loughner. they assumed it was a terror attack and inspired by a right wing to attack a congresswoman. that was false. so you have to establish it was a political one. probably is but we re not sure yet. bill: i m glad you and i agree on those two aspects regarding president obama. here is where we disagree. i believe u.s. intelligence has done a good job in protecting the nation, but you don t see it quite that way, correct? they have done a very good job in protecting us from post-9/11 terror attacks. in fact one of the reasons there was such shock and dismay, yesterday as a result of this, this is the first time. this is the first time there has been a successful bombing attack