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Who said he doesn't know much about the case but he believes tsarnaev was involved in something. juror 83 had facebook posts about the movie "american sniper," and his mother is a native of iran. now to juror 286. a female restaurant manager, she told the court she'd been high-fived for wearing a shirt with boston strong. that saying became popular in the aftermath of the bombing. let's talk a little bit about how the jury responded in their questionnaires that they were given. by our count right here six of them said that they were unsure about whether he was guilty or not. now, three of the ...

Important roles to undertake and in our system we ask them to be fair and not prejudge the evidence even in an extraordinary case where so much of the evidence was public and ask them to withhold judgment on what should happen. so first they find the facts and it is a separate second process after they come out and announce today as to whether, if they find convictions on the capital charges, which is widely expected then does this person merit the death penalty and the question they are asked to get on the jury if they are willing, if merited, to sentence another human being to death. they ha...

That process and they're done now. >> when we talk about the questions that the jury came back with they asked about whether or not a conspiracy can pertain to either a sequence of events or a single effect. so they were getting very specific about what that meant, especially in accordance with the timeline of what we know transpired at the boston marathon and to the watertown events, everything in between. >> well i think the focus was also on that two-month period prior to the marathon the february 15th to april 15th. the question was even if the evidence indicated that the younger brother w...

Is a federal crime because of the shootout and the conspiracy charges but anyone can relate in a murder case where you have one count of murder that one count could bring the death penalty if you were in a forward case or a state that uses it. here, as we've pointed out on air, it doesn't matter that massachusetts doesn't use a death penalty because this is a federal case and it could happen in any state where the federal government chooses when to bring capital charges. >> from your legal perspective with the jury coming back and asking those two questions today of the judge, a clarification ...

Had occurred and yet today it is now official in a way that it was not before. this jury of americans finding that dzokhar tsarnaev is guilty on all 30 counts guilty on all 17 capital counts guilty on every charge and federal crime and terror charge related to that horrific attack as well as the incidents and the fleeing thereafter. so it is significant for boston and i think for the united states. we know what -- what we know on the death penalty phase under the law, every juror who has found the facts in this case is open and willing under the proper situation to sentence the death penalty. ...