MOSCOW, August 30 (RIA Novosti) - Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is suspected of having carried out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings with his brother, seek to delay the trial till September 1, 2015, saying there are “barriers of distance, language, and culture,” NBC News reported.
Tsarnaev is scheduled to face charges on November 3. However the lawyers, according to NBC, argue that they would not be prepared and that the 16 months that have passed since the bombings is only “half the median preparation time that federal courts have allowed defendants on trial for their lives over the past decade."
Three people were killed and over 260 were wounded after two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15 last year. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, both ethnic Chechens, were identified as suspects in the blasts. Tamerlan was killed during the shootout and Dzhokhar was arrested as part of a special operation on April 19. Dzhokhar faces 30 charges, half of which are punishable by death. On his first public court appearance on July 10, 2013, the suspect pleaded not guilty to all 30 counts.
