was for the efficacy of whether he should be put to death or the ethics of it. >> i want to get caleb mason, former federal prosecutor back in here. caleb, talking a little bit more about the appeals process. we heard from pete williams earlier that one thing likely to be brought up in that process is the choice of boston as the location for this trial, and whether citizens of boston could truly be unbiassed in this case. how likely is it that any of these appeals would succeed on tsarnaev's behalf? >> well, the appeal is going to have to allege that there was some legal error in the proceedings. and these were proceedings that were tried by a very able defense team, and certainly in my observation, the trial was extremely fair. the ruling that is i would think very likely is going to be the ruling on venue. the claim is going to be that he has a right to a fair trial. that's a constitutional right and he was unable to get it in boston. he made a proper request for transfer to another venue and the court denied that and that error denyied him fair trial. i think that would be the argument t