Posted: 07 Sep 2015 09:00 PM PDT
When convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers filed
a motionlast month requesting a new trial, at a different venue, a key
reason was generally overlooked in superficial media coverage. The legal
team based its filing in large part on evidence it says shows at least
some of the jurors were exposed to "inflammatory" information on their
social media feeds during the trial. "The social media activity of
individual jurors and of their social media contacts is highly relevant
to the question of venue, because it further demonstrates a
constitutionally-intolerable level of risk to the fairness of the trial
..." the defense wrote.
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