AKIPRESS.COM - Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev complained in court filings late Monday that the FBI has been “needlessly intrusive” in the attorneys’ meetings with the accused Boston Marathon bomber, in spite of the lawyers’ past concerns that the agency’s actions violate his constitutional rights to access to counsel.

The lawyers asked US District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. to set parameters for the FBI in monitoring their meetings with Tsarnaev, saying prosecutors have failed to heed O’Toole’s warnings that the monitoring should be only for proven public safety concerns, the Boston Globe said.

“Defense counsel are thus more convinced than ever of the need for a reasonable degree of privacy and confidentiality for this series of legal visits and request that the court so order,” the lawyers argued.

Tsarnaev, now 20, is being held at the federal prison at Fort Devens in Ayer. He faces the death penalty if convicted of setting off the April 15, 2013, bombs that killed three people and injured more than 260. His older brother and alleged accomplice, Tamerlan, was killed in a confrontation with police in Watertown.