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Boston Marathon bomber begins appeal to overturn his death sentence
Source: CNN
The surviving Boston Marathon bomber who's been convicted and sentenced to death for his role in the terror plot that killed four, injured hundreds and left the city under siege during a five-day manhunt in April 2013, is hoping his legal team's appeal will give him his life back.
Lawyers representing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 26, will make opening statements on Thursday morning to the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals in hopes of overturning his death sentence, arguing that the bombing co-conspirator did not get a fair trial because Boston was the scene of the mayhem. They will argue the jury pool was tainted because they were directly affected by the bombing.
The team is also expected to argue that jurors lied to hide their bias. In a 206-page motion, Tsarnaev's attorneys highlighted a juror who referred to Tsarnaev as a "piece of garbage" in a Twitter post and lied about having to shelter in place during the manhunt, and another who started a Facebook group to discuss the jury selection process.
"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," according to the motion. "This verdict is unworthy of confidence and this Court should reverse."
Lawyers representing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 26, will make opening statements on Thursday morning to the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals in hopes of overturning his death sentence, arguing that the bombing co-conspirator did not get a fair trial because Boston was the scene of the mayhem. They will argue the jury pool was tainted because they were directly affected by the bombing.
The team is also expected to argue that jurors lied to hide their bias. In a 206-page motion, Tsarnaev's attorneys highlighted a juror who referred to Tsarnaev as a "piece of garbage" in a Twitter post and lied about having to shelter in place during the manhunt, and another who started a Facebook group to discuss the jury selection process.
"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," according to the motion. "This verdict is unworthy of confidence and this Court should reverse."
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/us/boston-marathon-bomber-appeal/index.html
Good luck with that...
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