Trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

United States v. Tsarnaev
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CourtUnited States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Full case name United States of America v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev a/k/a Jahar Tsarni
DecidedApril 8, 2015 (2015-04-08)
VerdictFound guilty on all 30 charges; Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death on June 24, 2015. (Six counts)[1]
Case history
Appealed toUnited States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Subsequent actionsAll of Tsarnaev's death sentence charges overturned on July 31st, 2020; remanded case back for a new trial for sentencing on the remaining charges[2]
The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the First Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate the death sentence on March 4th, 2022[3]
Court membership
Judges sittingGeorge O' Toole (initial trials)
Juan R. Torruella, O. Rogeriee Thompson, William J. Kayatta Jr. (Appeal)

The trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013, began on March 4, 2015, in front of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, nearly two years after the pre-trial hearings.[4] Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorney, Judy Clarke, opened by telling the jurors that her client and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted a bomb killing three and injuring hundreds, as well as murdering an MIT police officer days later. In her 20-minute opening statement, Clarke said: "There's little that occurred the week of April the 15th ... that we dispute."[4] Tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 counts and has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for his crimes.[5]

  1. ^ Judgement from Trial
  2. ^ READ THE RULING: Federal Appeals Court Overturns Tsarnaev Death Sentence NBC Boston
  3. ^ [1] NBC Boston
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  5. ^ Seelye, Katherine Q. (May 15, 2015). "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty in Boston Marathon Bombing". The New York Times. Retrieved May 15, 2015.