The Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Will Stay in Boston

http://time.com/3427870/boston-judge-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-marathon-bomber-trial-massachusetts/

Judge denies defense request to hold proceedings in another state and says that finding an impartial jury in Massachusetts is possible

The Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Will Stay in Boston
Elizabeth Barber
3:25 AM ET

The defense’s request to move the alleged Boston Marathon bomber’s trial outside Massachusetts has been denied by a federal judge in Boston, who did not agree with the contention that finding an impartial jury in the state would be impossible.

The judge did grant a request to delay the trial — but by two months only and not the 10 months the defense team had asked for.

The trial is now set for Jan. 5, 2015, at the federal courthouse in Boston — about 2 miles from the Boston Marathon finish line, where two pressure-cooker bombs detonated on April, 15, 2013, killing three people and wounding more than 260 others.

Lawyers for 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — who is accused of leaving the bombs at the race, as well as of shooting to death a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer while seeking to evade arrest — suggested that more than a year of aggressive media coverage of the bombings had made it impossible to recruit an impartial jury.