BOSTON, June 18 (UPI) -- Using accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev's alleged "betrayal of the United States" as death penalty grounds would be prejudicial, a judge said Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. said it is inappropriate to make distinctions between those who are naturalized as U.S. citizens and those born in the country. Prosecutors described Tsarnaev's alleged violation of the oath he took when he became a citizen as betraying the country.