Boston bomber deserves new trial, argues defence

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers have said that he deserves a new trial in a different location where jurors will be impartial.

Boston bomber deserves new trial, argues defence

They argued that, because of widespread outrage in Boston after the deadly 2013 attack, jurors in the city could not be objective before finding him guilty and recommending a death sentence.

As evidence of “continuous and unrelenting publicity,” they provided a long list of public events held in honour of the victims, including a new city holiday and several races.

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