After Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team attempted to move his trial out of Boston, a judge ruled in the negative and it will remain here in The Hub.

According to WCVB, on Wednesday evening Judge George O’Toole determined that the trial for the alleged Boston Marathon bomber will commence on January 5, 2015, instead of November 3, but the proceedings will stay in Boston, “saying there’s no reason to assume in advance that a fair jury cannot be selected in Massachusetts.”

Back in June, it was reported that Tsarnev’s defense was considering Springfield, Mass; Washington D.C.; and New York City as locations for a possible appeal. They cited the likes of the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing case as an instance in which a trial was relocated due to the potential for a bias on the part of the jury. The assailant in that trial, Timothy McVeigh, was sentenced to death and executed in 2001 by lethal injection.

The defense also attempted to push the trial further back than Judge O’Toole’s January date to September 2015, but that motion was denied.

“Although media coverage in this case has been extensive, at this stage the defendant has failed to show that it has so inflamed and pervasively prejudiced the pool that a fair and impartial jury cannot be empaneled in this District,” O’Toole wrote, noted WCVB.

Tsarnaev is the surviving half of the fraternal tandem suspected of detonating two pressure cooker bombs at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, subsequently killing three and injuring 264, as well as executing MIT police officer Sean Collier in cold blood and causing the injuring to MBTA police officer Richard Donahue during an early morning shootout on the streets of Watertown.

“It is doubtful whether a jury could be selected anywhere in the country whose members were wholly unaware of the Marathon bombings. The Constitution does not oblige them to be,” O’Toole added.