Boston Marathon bomber seeks new judge for juror bias inquiry

“Your Honor has praised the seated jurors’ ‘remarkable’ ‘public-spiritedness,’ assured audiences that Mr. Tsarnaev received a ‘fully fair’ trial, and said that Your Honor has no ‘lingering questions or doubts’ about the ‘trial outcome’ ― a death sentence,” wrote Tsarnaev’s lawyers, Deirdre von Dornum, David Patton, and William Fick. US District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. spoke about Tsarnaev’s case on a 2023 podcast and during panel discussions about jury trials in 2016 and 2017 at a law school and court-sponsored event, according to the motion filed in federal court...