Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev loses bid for new trial

A federal judge ordered Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to pay more than $101 million in restitution to the Boston Marathon bombing victims, according to court documents unsealed Friday.

Tsarnaev was convicted past year for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 that killed three people and injured more than 260 others.

The judge’s order instructs Tsarnaev to pay a total of $101,124,027 to 49 individuals, to be placed in the Massachusetts Victim Compensation Fund.

Lawyers for Tsarnaev are heading to court to urge a judge to grant him a new trial. Tsarnaev’s lawyers cited a dissenting opinion in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling past year by Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said they think it’s “highly likely” the death penalty is unconstitutional.

He also noted that defense attorney Judith Clarke admitted in her opening statements that Tsarnaev, along with his older brother Tamerlan, carried out the attack. The defense also cited intense and continuing local news coverage of the victims and the anniversary of the bombings.

Tsarnaev is now in a high security prison in Florence, Colorado, and has been ordered to pay more than $100 million dollars as restitution to the victims.

He was last seen in public on June 24, when he said he was ‘sorry for the lives I have taken’. His older brother Tamerlan also participated in the attack, but died three days after in a standoff with police, that left an officer dead.

He was sentenced to death.