Lawyers for accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Tuesday asked a Boston federal judge to suspend jury selection for at least one month in light of publicity surrounding the terrorism attacks in France.

The defense lawyers said in a court filing that “this measure would allow some time for the extraordinary prejudice flowing from these events—and the comparison of those events to those at issue in this case—to diminish.”

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