Boston Bomb Suspect’s Hope May Be With ‘Liberal’ Jurors

As the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev begins, defense lawyers trying to keep their client off death row face a tough task: finding jurors who haven’t made up their minds about the man accused of setting off fatal explosions at the city’s premiere sporting event.

The defense team, which has worked on some of the highest-profile federal death-penalty cases, repeatedly failed to get the trial moved out of the city. Starting this morning, the lawyers began working with U.S. prosecutors to pick 12 jurors and six alternates from a pool of more than 1,200 Massachusetts residents for the capital murder case.