khorum
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Defense filed for a change of venue on four different occasions, which were all denied, obviously. Three of those requests were made AFTER jury selection so an appeal based on venue would have to prove that the outcome would've been dramatically different elsewhere. But it's a Federal case so the jury and the court would've been the same anywhere else so that's that.The delay was because he was appealing, do you know if Tsarnaev will appeal?
Most importantly, the case they made was that Dzokhar was compelled by his brother and an appeal would have a long way to dismiss shit like this:
McVeigh never had a confession and proclaimed his innocence throughout and his appeals had some weight because they argued that Terry Nichols was the mastermind instead of McVeigh (and Nichols got life).