On Thursday, attorneys for 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston that their client’s death sentence should be overturned because his trial two years after the bombing should not have taken place in Boston.
In their legal brief, the lawyers wrote, “This case should not have been tried in Boston. Tsarnaev admitted heinous crimes, but even so — perhaps especially so — this trial demanded scrupulous adherence to the requirements of the Constitution and federal law. Again and again this trial fell short.” CNN reported, that in their motion, the lawyers write, “Fresh proceedings — in an unaffected community, before honest and unbiased jurors, who know that the bombings were [Dzhokar’s] first violent crimes but not Tamerlan’s — present a real prospect of a different outcome. This verdict is unworthy of confidence and this Court should reverse.”
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