"Tsarnaev legal team asks to add lawyer," is by Travis Andersen for the Boston Globe.
Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are again seeking to have renowned death penalty lawyer David I. Bruck appointed to the defense team in the case.
Judy Clarke, another high-profile capital defense lawyer appointed to the Tsarnaev case, filed a motion to add Bruck to the team on Monday, noting that the Virginia-based lawyer has specialized in death penalty cases for more than three decades.
A judge appointed Clarke April 29 but denied a request to add Bruck, while leaving open the possibility of appointing him in the future, pending new developments, court records show.
Clarke said Tsarnaev now faces dozens of allegations for which he could be executed, while he faced only two capital offense charges in April.
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Attorney General Eric Holder will have the final say on whether to seek the death penalty, and a spokesman said Monday that no timetable has been set for when he will decide.
"Defense for accused Boston Marathon bomber seeks additional lawyer," is the Reuters post by Scott Malone.
The ethnic Chechen and naturalized U.S. citizen last week pleaded not guilty to all 30 counts in his first public appearance since his April 19 arrest.
His lawyers, who include top Boston public defender Miriam Conrad and death-penalty expert Judith Clarke, argued in a motion filed on Monday that the sheer scale of the case -- in which authorities reviewed thousands of images taken at the crowded race finish and interviewed witnesses in the United States and abroad -- make the help necessary.
"Counsel expect that the amount of discovery that this investigation will produce will be truly massive," attorneys for the suspect wrote. "Even were this not a potentially capital case, the magnitude of the task confronting Mr. Tsarnaev's attorneys would be daunting."
Bruck, who serves as a law professor and director of the Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse at the Washington and Lee University School of law, has specialized in death penalty defenses for more the three decades.
Earlier coverage of the Boston bombing case begins at the link.
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