A U.S. federal appeals court appeared open to siding with convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his latest bid to reverse his death sentence. Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen born in Kyrgyzstan, and his older brother detonated bombs at the marathon's finish line in 2013, killing three people and wounding 260 others. Jurors in 2015 found Tsarnaev guilty and determined he deserved the death penalty. Tsarnaev's lawyer told the court in Boston on January 10 that two jurors had lied about whether they discussed the case on social media before being seated, and one of the judges said it was hard to understand how the facts did not raise a potential claim of juror misconduct.
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