NEW YORK, Dec 13 ― A lawyer for Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked yesterday for a new trial, arguing that his client's rights had been violated. A panel of three judges heard the appeal from the lawyer appointed for Tsarnaev, who was sentenced to death in 2015 for planting two...
A photograph of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, is seen on his page of Russian social networking site Vkontakte , as pictured on a monitor and a mobile phone in St. Petersburg in this April 19, 2013, file photo. — Reuter
Tsarnaev, now 26, is being held at Florence, a maximum security prison in Colorado considered one of the harshest in the country. He was not present for the hearing.In a recording of yesterday's hearing, Habib can be heard claiming that Tsarnaev's original 2015 trial should not have been held in Boston because the city was still so traumatized by the attack.
Lastly, Habib said, trial jurors did not hear evidence that Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died four days after the attack in a confrontation with police, had committed murder two years earlier.
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