In 2013 , Clarke was appointed to the defense team representing Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev . Clarke admitted her client 's guilt and told the jury that he was responsible for the " senseless , horrific , misguided acts " referring to Tsarnaev 's bombing of the Boston marathon . A federal jury convicted Tsarnaev of all 30 charges against him and found him responsible for the deaths of the three people killed in the 2013 attack and the killing of an MIT police officer three days later . A federal jury sentenced Tsarnaev to death in 2015
Boston Marathon bombing
Boston Marathon bombing
Judy Clarke