Aloke chakravarty biography of georgetown

In a case watched around the world, Aloke Chakravarty 97L won a death-penalty verdict in May 2015 against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving brother responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing.

Chakravarty is assistant US attorney in the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. In the course of his career, he has assembled an impressive number of successful prosecutions in high-profile terrorism cases.

In addition to the conversation below with Chakravarty, see the spring 2016 issue of Emory Magazine, to which he granted an exclusive interview about details of the Boston Marathon bombing trial.

Emory Lawyer: Judy Clarke, Tsarnaev’s lawyer, has said that he agreed to plead guilty before the trial and had written a letter of apology.

Is this accurate? If so, why did the government proceed with the case?

AC: Issues related to the decision to seek the death penalty are informed by a strict protocol that requires absolute confid