Boston Bomber's Attorneys Are Stepping Down Due To Logistics

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s legal team announced this afternoon they want to step down and entrust the fight of his 2015 conviction and federal death sentence to fresh minds and less-depleted budgets.

The requested change of guard comes just one day after the 22-year-old convicted terrorist’s appellate case was officially opened in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in South Boston.
Tsarnaev’s trial attorneys Miriam Conrad of the Federal Public Defender Office in Boston and noted anti-capital punishment crusader David I. Bruck of Washington and Lee University School of Law in Virginia are asking to be replaced by David Patton, executive director of the Federal Defenders of New York and attorney Gail Johnson of Colorado, where Tsarnaev is imprisoned at the ultimate-security Supermax penitentiary.
Lead trial counsel Judy Clarke of California will temporarily remain on board to assist the transition and until her replacement is found.