Prosecutors Ask Judge to Reject Tsarnaev Request to Move Trial
Federal prosecutors asked US District Court Judge George O’Toole Jr. to reject Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s request to move the trial out of Massachusetts. In it’s filing, made Tuesday at the Moakley Courthouse, prosecutors questioned the Tsarnaev defense team’s contention that their client couldn’t get a fair trial in the commonwealth.
The Boston Globe reports:
Prosecutors assailed poll results that Tsarnaev’s lawyers had cited in their bid to move the high-profile trial. His attorneys said in a June filing that a survey they had conducted showed “an overwhelming presumption of guilt in the District of Massachusetts’’ and a preference for the death penalty.
“The polling results on which Tsarnaev relies are an unreliable indicator of actual jury bias, and they certainly do not warrant a presumption that 12 fair jurors cannot be found in a population of five million,’’ prosecutors wrote in their filing Tuesday. “The Court is free to ignore those poll results, and in this instance, it should.’’
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