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...

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...

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...

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