Boston Bomber Challenges Conviction: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted three years ago of the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon which killed 3 and left more than 260 wounded, claims that he is entitled to a new trial and sentencing. Alanna Durkin Richer of the Associated Press reports that, in a 500 page brief submitted in federal district court, Tsarnaev's attorneys raise multiple claims of error including the trial judge's denial of a change of venue, which they claim denied the admitted bomber a fair trial. Tsarnaev's older brother Tamerlan died in a shootout with police days after the bombing. At trial the defense tried to portray Tsarnaev as a impressionable teen whose brother persuaded into participating in the attack.
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