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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev— Case Archive

About This Archive

Coverage, sources, limitations, and how to cite the record.

What this is

United States v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev was tried in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts before Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. This archive contains the 2015 trial record, beginning with jury selection on January 5 and ending with sentencing on June 24.

Transcripts are available for 64 dates, with more than 91,000 lines. The record includes jury selection, the guilt and penalty phases, verdicts, sentencing and transcribed sidebar discussions.

Primary source

The primary text comes from public federal court-reporter transcripts. Reporter page-and-line references are retained in citations. This HTML edition is a reading and search aid; the official court record governs.

Jury-selection transcripts for February 19, February 20 and February 25 are unavailable in the public source set. Those dates remain in the trial index with an unavailable-transcript notice. A March 3 lobby-conference transcript is also absent from the public record used here.

Published redactions remain marked [REDACTED]. Off-the-record and untranscribed discussions have no recoverable dialogue. The archive contains no courtroom video. Later appeals and remand proceedings are outside its transcript coverage.

Supporting material

Summaries, profiles, and other guides are separate from the transcript. Some are produced with AI assistance and may contain errors or miss important context; use the transcript and cited records for important questions.

Accuracy and corrections

  • The HTML transcript, speaker attribution, summaries and reference pages may contain errors. Verify important quotations against the reporter page and line and the official court record.
  • A redaction marker indicates text withheld in the source. It does not reveal the missing words or their length.

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How to cite

Cite the underlying court record first, then include the archive URL as the retrieval location.

United States v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, No. 13-10200-GAO (D. Mass.), trial transcript, June 24, 2015, p. 113, lines 8–25 (sentencing).

Include the archive URL for the passage. Each transcript line has a permalink; citation tools provide the case, date and transcript location.

Independence

This independent archive is not affiliated with a party, attorney, court, government agency, or news organization involved in the case. It is published by Court Daemon and built by Trice Digital.