Judge won't delay Boston Marathon bombing trial slated to begin Monday

Judge won't delay Boston Marathon bombing trial slated to begin Monday
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The trial for alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is slated to begin Monday after a federal judge denied a motion to delay jury selection on Friday.

The defense attorneys had asked on Wednesday to delay the trial and change the venue. Holding such a prominent trial so close to the attack site in Boston means "every member of the jury pool is, in effect, an actual victim of the charged offenses," ABC reports the attorneys said.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.