The jury spent a total
of just 14 hours in the penalty
phase of the
trial after finding Tsarnaev guilty on all 30
criminal counts, but an automatic appeal means his case will drag on.
She has represented numerous individuals in both the Southern and Eastern Districts
of New York in both
criminal and civil matters and has experience in all
phases of the litigation process in white collar and federal
criminal matters, as well as government and internal investigations, including pre-indictment advocacy, grand jury investigations, complex bail proceedings, pretrial motions, motions in limine, jury selection,
trials, sentencing, restitution, forfeiture, and other post-conviction proceedings.
Accordingly, the second
phase of court reform was to see the simultaneous creation
of a Unified Family Court and a Unified
Criminal Court within a single level
trial court.