A federal appeals court on July 31 denied a request by lawyers for the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to remove the judge overseeing his death sentence appeal. Tsarnaev’s lawyers cite the judge’s comments on a podcast as reason for recusal.
Tsarnaev was convicted in 2015 of helping carry out the 2013 bombing that killed three people and injured more than 260 near the Boston marathon finish line.
Attorneys for Tsarnaev argued that District Court Judge George O’Toole Jr. should be recused from the case because he is not impartial, pointing to his comments about the case on podcasts and at events….