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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5:Why has it taken 9 months for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (one of the Boston bombers) to go to trial even though he was identified and captured just 4 days after the bombings?

Edit: 1 year 9 mo...first date screw up of the year.


It seems inefficient and somewhat unfair for taxpayers to be financially responsible for this duration of pretrial detention even though there exist solid video evidence against him.
gpt
Because this is a high profile trial. If the prosecution chooses the wrong charges, or charges which are easily beaten, then people will be very angry "they let Tsarnaev go."

It's one thing to decide to make an arrest, and another to build a case and prove a charge. There's all kinds of procedural things that need to be done.

Look at what happens when they over-reach. In Florida there was that woman whose baby disappeared and was later found dead, and she didn't seem to care too much - they charged her with first degree murder which required them to prove she PLANNED and EXECUTED A PLAN to kill the child, which they couldn't. Merely her indifference at the kid being gone and the kid turning up dead doesn't prove the charge they went for.

TL:DR selecting the right charge and making sure they can prove all the elements.