Like most legal questions concerning the US, the answer is Yes, No, and Maybe.

It depends on the jurisdiction. Campus police can run the spectrum from less than a rent-a-mall-cop all the way to a sworn law enforcement officer.

If I had to make a generalization across all the jurisdictions, I would opine that most campus police are sworn law enforcement officers although many may only have jurisdiction within the campus boundary.

Revengefull bunch of people here. What do you think the Tsarnaev brothers were thinking about?

Me. We stick to our principles because they're our principles. Giving them up when it's convenient is cowardly.

He deserves the rights and process laid out in the Constitution.

Well said, we are a civilized people.

Markus

You're right, if he's charged, sentenced and committed Federally. On the other hand, if he's charged, sentenced and committed on the State level, he may very well have a roommate.
The inherent weakness in our Justice system is in protecting the "innocent until proven guilty" predilection. Not that this is a bad thing, but it can easily lead to a miscarriage of justice. Justice isn't always commensurate with the rules of law or what is (or isn't) considered Humane Treatment of suspects or convicts. It can get pretty complicated and philosophical. Skybird actually touched upon some of those points in one of his posts.

I'm actually indifferent about the death penalty. The most obvious danger in imposing the death penalty, is that someone who is actually innocent may be executed, despite all the apparent evidence at his trial. It has already happened in the past and even one error is too many.
On the other hand, how many convicted murderers are enjoying a better standard of living and a diet of three meals a day when so many in this country are living below the poverty level, maybe with one meal a day if they're lucky. That's only dealing with the issue of meals, not television, internet access or other privileges that are paid for by law abiding, tax paying, citizens.
I don't see any easy answers, but I do think that being convicted of a crime should negate certain privileges they would otherwise have as a law abiding citizens.

I can't get into the mindset of someone who would do something like this. Have no clue why you would just kill innocent people who have done nothing to you, they were just watching a marathon. The same applies to the bombings in London, or when they blew up the trains in Spain. Everyone asks themselves "Why"?

Being malicious most likely.The very strange part if it is true is that the younger one went to his college campus several times and went to class,and apparently hung around in the dorms as well.This was before the photos where released by the FBI.

This behavior is very strange indeed.On the one hand they plant bombs and then they just apparently went about their lives as if nothing happened.Why did they not do anything with all the weapons and bombs they had until Thursday night?

It would seem more logical to have just gone a bombing shooting spree across Mass. or New England.There is some clear irrationality to their actions after the bombings.Why not make threats and perform other attacks right away?Why not walk away form the marathon location and plant other bombs around to kill and harm people trying to walk away from the area?

I do not think that there was any rationality to their actions at all.

I would like to think that I could be, but if you were to ask me to be impartial about the July 7th bombers (had they survived) then I would struggle to do so given my thoughts and feelings about that day.

Do American jurors have to come from within the same state that the trial is taking place in?

More then likely Oberon, still not sure where the trial will be yet.

I was watching the CBS news show 48 Hours tonight, and one of the wounds our suspect has is pretty serious. He has a bullet wound in the back of his neck, but it is an exit wound. They believe he probably tried to shoot himself, by putting the barrel of his weapon in his mouth, and pulling the trigger.

He might never speak at all.

Yes, all the jurors must be residents of the state in which the trial takes place, and with few exceptions, the trial must take place in the state where the crime was committed.

Article 3, section 2 para 3 of the Constitution

For federal juries, you have to be a resident of the federal judicial district.

In most states, jurors are selected from the list of registered voters in that state.

That's why the law works the way it does. Laws against murder don't just punish the guilty, they exist to prevent the chaos of vendettas.

Listening to the news on TV I thought the father was from Kazakhstan, but that is now proven false.

They sounded the same, but a long way from each other, plus a lot of people (not ya'll of course) thought they had something to do with the Czech Republic, but again that information is false: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...with-chechnya/

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Interna...0420_wblog.jpg


Now that all of that is clear ...

CBS on this evening news (like eddie reported earlier) has reported that the neck wound on the
younger brother is an exit wound in the throat area which could be an attempted suicide shot through the
mouth and went clean through.

The twenty shots fired after they cornered him in the boat came from him and not from the police or FBI.

One more item I wonder if the MIT campus policeman had a gun?

They said he was a cool campus cop and that he would run up and down the stairs with the other
students for fun in full uniform with all of his gear on.

geetrue, they ambushed him. They just walked up to his car, and shot and killed him. He had no idea of what was about to happen to him, sadly. Never had a chance to defend himself.

This hack or Russian puppet knows why this event happended in Boston. Would love to meet him and set him straight,lol

http://news.msn.com/world/pro-moscow...oston-bombings

Not only that, the man they kidnapped stated they were laughing and bragging about what they did, including killing the cop. Really lucky for him they let him go.