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Boston Marathon Bomber Faces Trial Today

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The man behind the Boston Marathon bomb explosion is to face trial today in federal courthouse few miles from the scene of the attack. This is in utter disregard of calls by the defense lawyer for delay and change of venue away from Boston. A federal appeals court Saturday cleared the way for jury selection to begin.


Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, is charged with 30 criminal counts in the April 2013 bombings, which killed three people and injured 260 others, and for in the murder of an MIT campus police officer, Sean Collier, a few days after the bomb attack. 

Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty. His older brother, Tamerlan, also accused in the crimes, died in a shootout with police. 

He has been in prison since shortly after the bombing.

U.S. District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. has summoned 3,000 people — an unusually large jury pool — to the federal courthouse on Boston's inner harbor. Because the government has said it will seek the death penalty if Tsarnaev is convicted, potential jurors will be questioned with the goal of seating a jury that is, as federal law puts it, "death-qualified." 

"Two types of jurors must be excluded," said Professor Ira Robbins of American University's Washington College of Law. "The judge will seek to eliminate those who are categorically opposed to the death penalty in all cases and those who believe that if there's a conviction for capital murder, they must impose the death penalty."



                    
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