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 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, could face execution if he is convicted of
killing three people and injuring more than 260 with a pair of
homemade pressure-cooker bombs on April 15, 2013, and with fatally
shooting a university police officer three days later as he and his
older brother, Tamerlan, attempted to flee the city.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died after an overnight gunbattle with police
shortly after that shooting. His brother was captured late the
following evening following a daylong lockdown of most of the Boston
metropolitan area.
The two sides asked U.S. District Court last week to call a field of
2,000 people to be screened as possible jurors. Defense lawyers have
argued it will be impossible to find an impartial panel of 12 jurors
and six alternates in Boston, where a large number of people
participate in the world's longest-running marathon either as
spectators or athletes.
Attorneys are also squabbling over a visit by the defense team to
Russia, where it was trying to learn about Tsarnaev's life before he
and his ethnic Chechen family moved to the Boston area a decade ago.
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Prosecutors contended in court filings that Russian officials told
the United States that defense attorneys identified themselves as
members of the FBI probing the case. Defense attorneys have denied
doing so.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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