Judge in Boston Marathon bombing trial will not delay jury selection
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Version 0 of 1. The federal judge presiding over the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev said on Friday he would not delay jury selection. Judge George O’Toole Jr said in his decision on Friday that jury selection will start as scheduled on Monday, because it would be too inconvenient to delay it. Tsarnaev’s lawyers had asked for a postponement while a federal appeals court decides whether to postpone the trial and move it out of Massachusetts. More than 1,200 people have been called for jury selection. O’Toole said delaying the start “would cause some unknown degree of disruption to those people” and to the court. Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to 30 charges connected to the April 2013 explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. |