Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev want the jury selection for his murder trial suspended in the wake of the Paris attacks.
The Associated Press noted that on Tuesday, Tsarnaev’s attorneys requested that the ongoing jury selection for their client’s trial be suspended and cited the recent attacks in France as the reason.
The attorneys said that they would not be able to select an impartial jury so soon after what happened abroad.
"Almost immediately after the attacks, the press, politicians and commentators drew parallels between the French attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing," the lawyers wrote.
Tsarnaev, 21, was born in Kyrgyzstan and came to the United States with his family when he was a child. He and his older brother Tamerlan, are believed to have carried out the Boston bombings on April 15, 2013, as revenge on the U.S. for wars in Muslim countries. Three people were killed by the blasts and more than 250 were injured.
With the attacks in France on Jan. 7, also said to be acts of terror, some wounds may have opened up.
As previously reported, 12 people were killed when gunmen stormed the offices of a satirical newspaper and opened fire. In separate attacks the following day, a policewoman was killed and four people were taken hostage and fatally shot inside a kosher market.
Tsarnaev’s lawyers have been trying to get his trial delayed and moved out of Boston for months, now because of the new tragedies they feel they have grounds to get that done.