The Court of Appeal upheld Tsarnaev's guilt, but at the same time ordered a new trial to determine the sentence.
The reason is, according to the appellate court, that not everything went right in the process of selecting a jury for the trial in 2015. In the verdict, the court points to the risk that jury members may have had preconceived notions about Tsarnaev due to the extensive media coverage of the case before the trial.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan were convicted of detonating two homemade bombs made by pressure cookers at the finish line for the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The older brother died in a shooting with police during the ensuing hunt for the perpetrators, while the younger brother was arrested. days later.
Neither representatives of the prosecution nor the defense have yet commented on the upset verdict