“Put only, prejudicial press, happenings and surroundings flooded higher Boston, which includes facebook of exact burden jurors, and pushed it an incorrect event location regarding the trial period this case”, these said.
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His lawyers want his guilty verdict overturned and a new trial to be held elsewhere to determine his guilt and penalty.
He was found guilty of all 30 charges against him on April 8 in connection to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that left 4 people dead and 264 injured.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Mellin with the jury, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the foreground.
The lawyers argue a recent Supreme Court ruling about the vagueness of the definition of a “crime of violence” throws many convictions into question. The court ruled that part of the federal definition was unconstitutionally vague and struck it down. In June, when a judge formally handed down that sentence, Tsarnaev apologized to the court for his actions.
Tsarnaev was charged with placing and discharging an explosive in public, for example, but his lawyers said “the “delivery” and “placement” of an explosive do not involve violent force”.
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“This social media saturation would have been highly unlikely in a venue where jurors’ social networks – that is to say, their friends, families, and acquaintances – were not themselves so immersed in the (fury) of the Marathon bombing”, Tsarnaev’s lawyers write.
