--- description: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys say they've been overwhelmed with material from prosecutors title: Boston Bombing Suspect Asks for Another Trial Delay image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60c7a852aa2fc1ce/69876feb524fc037fedeb85f/tsarnaev.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Boston Bombing Suspect Asks for Another Trial Delay by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 23, 2014 9:20 PM CUT  Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is pictured in this undated FBI handout photo. Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is pictured in this undated FBI handout photo.Reuters by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 23, 2014 9:20 PM CUT Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bomb suspect on Tuesday renewed their request to delay the start of the trial — now scheduled to begin Jan. 5 with jury selection — until September 2015. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s attorneys say they’ve been overwhelmed with material from prosecutors, are finding it difficult to research Tsarnaev’s family overseas, and are worried that the jury could end up deliberating around the second anniversary of the blast that killed three and injured more than 260. “Given the ubiquity and intensity of anniversary news coverage and related public activities, even the most conscientious jurors are likely to be exposed… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boston-bombing-suspect-dzkokhar-tsarnaev-asks-another-trial-delay-n273961 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3646194/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston-bombing-suspect-trial-delay/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3646194/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston-bombing-suspect-trial-delay/"},"headline":"Boston Bombing Suspect Asks for Another Trial Delay","datePublished":"2014-12-23T21:20:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:06:50.752Z","description":"Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys say they've been overwhelmed with material from prosecutors","url":"https://time.com/3646194/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston-bombing-suspect-trial-delay/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60c7a852aa2fc1ce/69876feb524fc037fedeb85f/tsarnaev.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt60c7a852aa2fc1ce/69876feb524fc037fedeb85f/tsarnaev.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"File photo of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev","caption":"File photo of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev","creditText":"Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3646194/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-boston-bombing-suspect-trial-delay/","name":"Boston Bombing Suspect Asks for Another Trial Delay"}}]}] ```