US asks Supreme Court to hear Boston Marathon bomber’s case
Associated PressBOSTON — The U.S. Justice Department asked the nation’s highest court Tuesday to review the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose death sentence was thrown out over concerns with the jury selection process. In a petition, Justice Department lawyers called Tsarnaev’s case “one of the most important terrorism prosecutions in our nation’s history” and said the 1st U.S. Prosecutors are asking the court to hear and decide the case this term, which ends in June, “to avoid further delay in this long-running and critically important prosecution.” The Supreme Court hears only a fraction of the cases it’s asked to review every year. Attorney General William Barr told The Associated Press in August that they planned to take the case to the high court and “continue to pursue the death penalty.” “We will do whatever’s necessary,” Barr said.
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