Tag / boston marathon
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The Trials of Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s Jurors
The Sixth Amendment guarantees a criminal defendant with U.S. citizenship the right to be tried before an “impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed.” By this amendment, a jury is meant to be representative of a cross-section of the community in which the crime in question occurred. But…
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Boston Strong: Commercializing Trauma
BY RACHEL BUTLER When you type the words “Boston Strong” into Google, the first results that pop up are t-shirts for sale. With an $11.98 kids’ version, a $19.99 variation sporting the Boston Bruins logo, and a $25 iteration with the Boston skyline on the front, the Boston Strong t-shirt has become ubiquitous in Boston…
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The Next Marathon
It’s been mere hours since someone (or someones) took the lives of strangers into their hands for reasons that cannot possibly be justified. And in doing so, they showed me that despite my well-practiced cynicism, there’s still a raw nerve, a sliver of sentimentality in me that can be pinched and leave me gasping for…
