UNITED STATES v. TSARNAEV

No. 20-443.

142 S.Ct. 1024 (2022)

UNITED STATES, Petitioner v. Dzhokhar A. TSARNAEV.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 4, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ginger D. Anders , Washington, DC, for respondent.

Brian H. Fletcher , Acting Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.

David Patton , Deirdre D. Von Dornum , Daniel Habib , Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., New York, NY, for respondent. Cliff Gardner , Law Offices of Cliff Gardner, Berkeley, CA, Ginger D. Anders , Counsel of Record, Brendan B. Gants , Xiaonan April Hu , Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Elizabeth B. Prelogar , Acting Solicitor General Counsel of Record, John C. Demers , Assistant Attorney General, Nicholas L. McQuaid , Acting Assistant Attorney Genera, Eric J. Feigin , Deputy Solicitor General, Christopher G. Michel , Michael R. Huston , Assistants to the Solicitor General, William A. Glaser , Joseph F. Palmer , Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.


On April 15, 2013, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev planted and detonated two homemade pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The blasts hurled nails and metal debris into the assembled crowd, killing three while maiming and wounding hundreds. Three days later, the brothers...

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