Even though he and his brother caused “battlefield-like carnage” when they bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence must be vacated pending a new penalty-phase trial, a federal appeals court said Friday. The ruling came from the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. “A core promise of our criminal-justice system […]
Tsarnaev Prosecutors Used ‘Islamophobia’ to Secure Death Penalty in Marathon Bombing Trial, Defense Says…
Prosecutors were “courting Islamophobia” during the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a proceeding tainted by two lying jurors and the wrongful concealment from the jury of evidence that Tsarnaev’s older brother and co-assailant previously committed a triple murder, Tsarnaev’s legal team argued Thursday. Those assertions were among the key arguments in a legal […]