Appeals court orders judge to probe claims of juror bias in Boston Marathon bomber's case
by Alanna Durkin Richer
Mar 21, 2024
3 minutes
A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's case to be returned to a lower court to probe claims of juror bias and determine whether his death sentence should stand.
The ruling from the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals keeps intact Tsarnaev's death sentence for now. But the judges found that further investigation is needed to determine whether two jurors should have been stricken for biases.
If the lower court's
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