A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s case to be returned to a lower court to probe claims of juror bias.
A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev‘s case to be returned to a lower court to probe claims of juror bias.
The order from the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals keeps intact Tsarnaev‘s death sentence for now.
But the appeals court said the trial court judge’s investigation into plausible claims of juror bias “fell short of what was constitutionally required.
