Boston Marathon bombing

=== Charges and detention ===
[[File:Dzhokhar Tsarnayev (crop).jpg|140px|Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a court holding cell on July 10, 2013| thumb]]
On April 22, 2013, formal criminal charges were brought against Tsarnaev in the [[United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts]] during a bedside hearing while he was hospitalized. He was charged with use of a [[weapon of mass destruction]] and with malicious destruction of property resulting in death.<ref name="DOJ affidavit" /> Some of the charges carried potential sentences of [[life imprisonment]] or the [[Capital punishment in the United States|death penalty]].<ref name="USC2332" /> Tsarnaev was judged to be awake, mentally competent, and lucid, and he responded to most questions by nodding. The judge asked him whether he was able to afford an attorney and he said no; he was represented by the [[Federal Public Defender's Office|Federal Public Defender]]'s office.<ref name="AutoLC-96" /> On April 26, Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to the [[Federal Medical Center, Devens|Federal Medical Center]] at [[Fort Devens]], about {{convert|40|mi|km}} from Boston. FMC Devens is a federal prison medical facility at a former Army base<ref name="AutoLC-97" /> where he was held in solitary confinement at a segregated housing unit<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57581768/boston-bomb-suspect-in-small-cell-with-steel-door/ |title=Boston bomb suspect in small cell with steel door |work=CBS News |date=April 27, 2013 |access-date=May 17, 2013}}</ref> with 23-hour-per-day lockdown.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.talkleft.com/story/2013/4/28/32151/9400/terrortrials/Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev-in-Solitary-at-Devens-Segregated-Housing-Unit |title=Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Solitary at Devens' Segregated Housing Unit – TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime |publisher=TalkLeft |date=April 28, 2013 |access-date=May 17, 2013}}</ref>

On July 10, 2013, Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to 30 charges in his first public court appearance, including a murder charge for MIT police officer Sean Collier.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/07/10/boston-marathon-bombing-court-appearance.html|title=Boston Marathon bombing suspect pleads not guilty|date=July 10, 2013|work=cbc.ca|access-date=April 8, 2015}}</ref> He was back in court for a status hearing on September 23,<ref>[http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/08/court_papers_say_dzhokhar_tsarnaev_had_fractured_skull_hand "Court papers say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had fractured skull, hand after manhunt"] by Laurel J. Sweet, ''The Boston Herald''.</ref> and his lawyers requested more time to prepare their defense.<ref>{{cite news|last=Stanglin|first=Doug|title=Tsarnaev lawyers ask for more time|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/23/boston-bombing-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-death-penalty/2854293/|newspaper=USA Today|date=September 23, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}</ref> On October 2, Tsarnaev's attorneys asked the court to lift the [[special administrative measure]]s (SAMs) imposed by Attorney General Holder in August, saying that the measures had left Tsarnaev unduly isolated from communication with his family and lawyers, and that no evidence suggested that he posed a future threat.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tsarnaev lawyers want prison restrictions eased|first=Milton J.|last=Valencia|date=October 2, 2013|work=[[The Boston Globe]] | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/10/02/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-prison-restrictions-should-eased-attorneys-argue/j14fAHkT50moW41NbxDDGM/story.html}}</ref>