Friday, August 2, 2013

Newspapers Complain Court Docket in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Case Missing Entries

What is going on with the Boston Marathon Bombing case? Why all the mystery? Ibragim Todashev who was supposedly a friend of the brothers Tsarnaev was shot to death while being questioned by the FBI. First he was alleged to have attacked the agents with a knife, then it was a sword, then it was a stick. The FBI pumped 6 rounds into his body and then "one to go" through the head. As of late the only news released on the killing is that the FBI has refused to allow the Florida medical examiner to release the autopsy. Funny huh?
Not quite as funny as the federal court in Boston apparently trying to pull off some sort of cover up. GateHouse Media Inc., the parent company of several Massachusetts-based community newspapers wrote a letter to the federal district court objecting that the public docket maintained in the criminal case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is missing entries.
Wide swaths of court records have been omitted in their entirety from the docket listings,” the letter states. “The incomplete public docket sheet maintained in this case ... does not accurately reflect the materials on file with the Court. As a result, the Newspapers’ constitutionally protected newsgathering and reporting efforts have been frustrated.
The letter further states;
“a presumptive First Amendment right to inspect and copy judicial documents.” That right “ensures that proceedings are fairly conducted, and allows the public to know that the system is working properly. These concerns take on heightened importance in a prominent case such as this,  where public education and the perception of fairness are critical.”
By nature I reject most conspiracies but when a crime is committed by a perp that was on Russia's BOLO list that the FBI ignored, when a material witness to the case is killed by the same FBI, when a mysterious Saudi student goes from being a "person of interest" in the bombing to friend of Michelle Obama and when a federal court can't keep its docket straight, it strains my credulity.

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