Today, the federal judge in the Boston Marathon bombing trial denied the third request by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to have his trial moved (for background information on prior motions to change venue go here). In denying this third request for a change of venue, the federal judge stated,
“Contrary to the defendant’s assertions, the voir dire process is successfully identifying potential jurors who are capable of serving as fair and impartial jurors in this case...In light of that ongoing experience, the third motion to change venue has even less, not more, merit than the prior ones.”
The decision to keep Tasrnaev's trial in Boston has caught the interest of several folks and has even led to a debate in the NY Times Opinion Page.
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