History Lesson: The New York Times puts the defense of accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in historical context: it’s the same strategy laid out by Clarence Darrow almost a century ago when representing child killers Leopold and Loeb. “He started with a guilty plea. That left him free to focus on his goal: saving them from the gallows,” Katherine Q. Seelye writes. “He delivered an extraordinary 12-hour closing argument against the death penalty that left the judge in tears, after which he sentenced the pair to life in prison.”
Neighborhood Brawl: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s legal dispute with his neighbor Mircea Voskerician could get ugly, VentureBeat reports. Voskerician sued Zuckerberg for breach of contract, claiming as part of a real estate deal for neighboring properties that the Facebook head promised to introduce him to influential Silicon Valley players. “It’s very likely that Voskerician’s legal team will spare no expense on discovery, hoping to dig up anything that might paint Zuckerberg as an entitled brat, a liar, and a bad neighbor,” VB reports.
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