U.S. v. TSARNAEV

No. 16-6001.

968 F.3d 24 (2020)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Dzhokhar A. TSARNAEV, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 31, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Habib , with whom Deirdre D. von Dornum , David Patton , Mia Eisner-Grynberg , Anthony O'Rourke , Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., Clifford Gardner , Law Offices of Cliff Gardner, Gail K. Johnson , and Johnson & Klein, PLLC were on brief, for appellant.

John Remington Graham on brief for James Feltzer, Ph.D., Mary Maxwell, Ph. D., LL.B., and Cesar Baruja, M.D., amici curiae.

George H. Kendall , Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, Timothy P. O'Toole , and Miller & Chevalier on brief for Eight Distinguished Local Citizens, amici curiae.

David A. Ruhnke , Ruhnke & Barrett, Megan Wall-Wolff , Wall-Wolff LLC, Michael J. Iacopino , Brennan Lenehan Iacopino & Hickey, Benjamin Silverman , and Law Office of Benjamin Silverman PLLC on brief for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, amicus curiae.

William A. Glaser , Attorney, Appellate Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, with whom Andrew E. Lelling , United States Attorney, Nadine Pellegrini , Assistant United States Attorney, John C. Demers , Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, John F. Palmer , Attorney, National Security Division, Brian A. Benczkowski , Assistant Attorney General, and Matthew S. Miner , Deputy Assistant Attorney General, were on brief, for appellee.

Before Torruella, Thompson, and Kayatta, Circuit Judges.


OVERVIEW

Together with his older brother Tamerlan, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev detonated two homemade bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon, thus committing one of the worst domestic terrorist attacks since the 9/11 atrocities.1 Radical jihadists bent on killing Americans, the duo caused battlefield...

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