Retired SJC Justice Joins Lawyers Backing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Bid for New Death Penalty Trial

Former SJC Associate Justice Fernande R.V. Duffly, currently a visiting professor of the practice at NUSL, and professors Daniel Medwed and Michael Meltsner, are among eight attorneys and legal scholars who have signed on to an amicus brief supporting Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s request to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for a new death penalty trial.