Now the real trial can begin

Andrew McCarthy observes that now that the jury in Boston has concluded that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is guilty on all thirty counts, the real trial can now begin.

When the death penalty is involved, … the jury also imposes the sentence, [which is] usually the task of the trial judge. A death-penalty case is thus a bifurcated trial, and it is the later sentencing phase that really matters.

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