Boston bomber expected to appeal over trial site

Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s appeal against his death sentence is likely to focus on the judge’s refusal to move the trial out of Boston and the prosecution’s barrage of emotional evidence from more than a dozen victims of the attack.

While the case will probably take years to wend its way through the courts, legal observers say there are some obvious grounds for challenging the punishment handed out by the jury to the 21-year-old former student for the 2013 bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260 at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.