Crime & Safety

Tsarnaev Lawyers: Delay Trial Over Paris Attacks

The delay was requested Tuesday.

A federal judge has rejected a bid by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to suspend jury selection in his trial for at least a month because of the Paris terror attacks.

The Boston Herald reported that Tsarnaev’s lawyers asked for the delay Tuesday, arguing that the Paris attacks last week placed the marathon bombings “at the center of a grim global drama.”

Judge George O’Toole Jr. denied the motion Wednesday morning.

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Jury selection, which began last week in Boston, is scheduled to resume Thursday.

Read the Boston Herald story here.

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