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| Reflections on Reid, Tsarnaev & How I Got from There to Here |
| By /jjie.org - Tamat Birckhead |
| Published: 05/08/2013 |
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In recent weeks, I’ve been occupied with putting myself out there (via print, radio & cable news) to share the message that even those charged with the most heinous offenses are still human beings, that we are each more than the very worst thing we have done, and that execution is morally wrong. In my last life, I worked as a federal public defender in Boston and had the occasion to represent Richard Reid, the failed, or would-be, shoe-bomber. This wasn’t a role I sought out, and in fact, when the case was initially assigned to me, I felt apprehensive about taking it on. It so happened, however, that I was “on call” during the last week of December 2001, meaning that any new cases appointed to the office were mine; so, when Reid’s American Airlines flight from Miami to Paris was diverted to Boston’s Logan Airport and he was arrested and charged with acts of terrorism, I knew that this 28-year-old bin Laden adherent of British and Jamaican descent would become my client. Read More. |
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