Tsarnaev lawyers: " Government might have a completely erroneous story"

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers asked today for the government to turn over interviews with the accused terrorist’s family as well as grand jury testimony, arguing the evidence could be critical as both sides prepare to make their death penalty arguments to the Justice Department.

“The government has taken the position that, ‘Look, we know what we have and you don’t need to know about it,’ ” attorney Judy Clarke told U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. “It’s of concern that the government thinks it can make a decision based on what they know without some defense input. They may have a completely erroneous story.”

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“We have provided a great deal of information,” prosecutor William Weinreb told the court today. He said the six months the defense has had since getting the case “is reasonable time” for them to have compiled their own report to Holder based on “whatever they may have come up with in their own investigation of the case.”

Calling it “the biggest philosophical dispute we have with the government right now,” fellow public defender Miriam Conrad argued the missing discovery is potentially “relevant” and “exculpatory.” The defense has until the end of the day to submit formal requests for the evidence.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/09/tsarnaev_lawyers_seek_family_interviews_for_death_penalty

Judy Clarke is a specialist for mitigations of the death penalty for candidates whose actual crime is not disputed. But the "erroneous story" remark sounds like she thinks he's not guilty.

Stuff for "conspiracy theories".