#Breaking Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has had his death sentence vacated by the 1st Circuitpic.twitter.com/Nfzjgv3pEs
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Judge Thompson writes that, if another trial occurs, it would likely be in Boston. Among the challenges Tsarnaev brought was an argument that the trial should have been moved elsewhere.pic.twitter.com/QLPEePtHo1
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The panel said Judge O’Toole should have dug deeper into potential biases held by the jurors, which was a point raised numerous times in oral argumentspic.twitter.com/u9KbD7Jon0
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Not that it would happen any time soon, but as a side note I can’t fathom the notion of empaneling a jury for a case like this during a pandemic
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If you have the time/interest, here is the full oral argument from last December https://twitter.com/chrisvillani44/status/1205236608515133440?s=21 …https://twitter.com/ChrisVillani44/status/1205236608515133440 …
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This is the upshot: the 1st Circuit denied Tsarnaev’s bid to change the venue based on the expectation of a voir dire that did not leave it up to jurors to judge their own impartiality. The panel found that did not happen, so the death sentence is vacated.pic.twitter.com/ba2RrHgPXq
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Judge Juan Torruella differed from the majority, saying the change of venue issue was enough to warrant a new trial. "If this case did not present a sufficient basis for a change of venue, there are no set of circumstances that will meet this standard."pic.twitter.com/9HkagDfkTv
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Isn’t that the job of the defense attorneys during jury selection?
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