Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev want a new judge to oversee the investigation into juror bias. They say the judge that oversaw Tsarnaev’s 2015 death penalty trial should excuse himself after making public comments about the case. According to The Boston Globe, Tsarnaev’s legal team says that U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. “invited trouble” by...

Tsarnaev’s guilt in the deaths of those killed in the bombing was not at issue in the appeal, which concerns whether he will receive the death penalty.

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Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are seeking to remove the judge overseeing the protracted legal battle over Tsarnaev’s death sentence. Tsarnaev’s lawyers said during a hearing in federal court in Boston on Wednesday that U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole should be recused from the case, pointing to what they said were comments O’Toole made about the...

A ruling calls for a review of jurors years after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Possible juror bias is at the center of a federal appeals court ruling that remands Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s case back to U.S. District Court for further examination. The First Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Tsarnaev’s attorneys in a 2-1 decision that two of the 12 deliberating jurors involved in sentencing Tsarnaev to death may have lied...

There’s a twist in the case of the Boston Marathon bomber that could lead to a new trial. A federal appeals court has ruled there should be an investigation into possible bias of two jurors from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death penalty trial.

A federal appeals court has ordered an investigation into the outcome of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial. He was sentenced to death for setting of bombs at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.

A federal appeals court is ordering a review of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.

Appeals court orders judge to probe Boston marathon bomber’s claims of juror bias, death sentence remains intact.