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Tsarnaev's lawyer admits he carried out Boston bombing
By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer
Updated at 1:56 p.m. with more details.

BOSTON • The question, for all practical purposes, is no longer whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took part in the Boston Marathon bombing. It's whether he deserves to die for it.

In a startling opening statement at the nation's biggest terrorism trial in nearly 20 years, Tsarnaev's own lawyer told a jury that the 21-year-old former college student committed the crime.

"It WAS him," said defense attorney Judy Clarke, one of the nation's foremost death-penalty specialists.

But in a strategy aimed at saving Tsarnaev from a death sentence, she argued that he had fallen under the influence of his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan.

"The evidence will not establish and we will not argue that Tamerlan put a gun to Dzhokhar's head or that he forced him to join in the plan," Clarke said, "but you will hear evidence about the kind of influence that this older brother had."

Federal prosecutors used their opening statements — along with testimony and chilling video — to sketch a grisly picture of torn limbs, screams and the smell of sulfur and burned hair in the streets and to paint Tsarnaev as a cold-blooded killer.

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An opinion piece about jurors, the state of Massachusetts, and ideas about an outcome.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html

Why the alleged Boston Marathon bomber probably won’t get the death penalty

By Karen J. Greenberg January 9

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"So it may be harder than expected for jurors in Boston to hand down the death penalty, even in a terrorism case, even in their back yard. A 2013 Boston Globe poll found that 57 percent of respondents thought Tsarnaev should get life without parole, 33 percent said he should get the death penalty, and 10 percent were unsure. All potential jurors, in the jury questionnaire, are asked whether they would be willing to consider the death penalty. Those who say no are automatically disqualified. Even a juror who claimed openness to the death penalty could waver in the face of evidence about any misfortunes in Tsarnaev’s life that may have led him to commit this crime. Tsarnaev’s youth might be further cause for sympathy. "


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Father Testifies In Tsarnaev Trial About Son's Death, Daughter's Disfiguring

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Updated: 03/06/2015 5:00 pm EST


BOSTON -- The second day of the accused Boston Marathon bomber's criminal trial was dominated by testimony from victims who lost limbs, and witnesses who saw people killed and maimed by the blasts.

The emotional narratives culminated with William Richard's meticulous and plainspoken recollection of his family's annual outing to the marathon in 2013. The trip from their Dorchester home resulted in his 8-year-old son Martin's death, his 6-year-old daughter Jane's loss of a leg, and the partial blinding of his wife Denise.

"I saw a little boy who had his body severely damaged by an explosion. I just knew from what I saw there was no chance" he'd survive, Richard told a federal jury about the bomb that exploded on crowded Boylston Street. "I knew in my head that I needed to act quickly or we might not only lose Martin, but we might lose Jane, too."

The bomb injured Richard too, embedding shrapnel in his leg and causing partial hearing loss. But he downplayed his own wounds.

"I can still hear music," he said. "I can still hear the beautiful voices of my family."

The steady testimony from Richard visibly affected some jurors, according to a Boston Herald reporter seated in the courtroom.

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Images, video of Tsarnaevs with backpacks shown to jurors
By Milton J. Valencia and Patricia WenGlobe Staff March 09, 2015

Jurors in the death penalty trial of Boston Marathon terror bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were shown surveillance video and photographs on Monday that captured Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, arriving on Boylston Street minutes before the attack, each weighted down by a backpack carrying a bomb.

The material collected by the FBI after the April 15, 2013, attack showed the brothers arriving in front of 867 Boylston St. at 2:41 p.m. and then parting ways, with Dzhokhar stopping outside the Forum Restaurant, while Tamerlan continued to the race’s finish line, where he would drop his backpack at the Marathon Sports store.

Tamerlan is shown wearing a black cap while Dzhokhar is shown wearing a white baseball cap turned backward, garb that later led FBI agents to call their unnamed suspects “black hat’’ and “white hat,’’ Anthony Imel of the FBI’s forensic unit testified Monday.

It was Day 3 of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial in US District Court in Boston on 30 charges, including 17 that could bring him the death penalty.

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The trial continues today....

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#Tsarnaev bolts for the door before O'Toole leaves the bench and is promptly stopped by a U.S. Marshal and returned to his seat.

That excursion cuts short testimony today. Agent De Lair returns to the stand tomorrow morning.#Tsarnaev

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Tsarnaev defended killing in writings, witness says

The Boston Globe | March 10, 2015
By Milton J. Valencia, Patricia Wen, Kevin Cullen, John R. Ellement and Martin Finucane


Hiding from police in a boat covered in shrinkwrap parked in the backyard of a Watertown home, Boston Marathon terror bomber Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev wrote in pencil that he believed his Islamic faith permitted the killing of innocents in defense of other Muslims, a witness testified Tuesday.

Tsarnaev’s writings inside the boat were presented to the jury in US District Court in Boston, where Tsarnaev is on trial for his role in the April 15, 2013, bombings that killed three people and wounded 260 others.

On Tuesday, Boston Police Officer Todd Brown, a member of the department’s bomb squad, testified that he searched the boat to make sure that there were no explosive devices in it after Tsarnaev was discovered hiding there.

No bombs were found, but Brown said he did notice some writing in pencil, words that were partially obscured by blood stains in some places and defaced by bullet holes in others.

“I bear witness that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is his messenger…US Government is killing our innocent civilians,’’ Tsarnaev allegedly wrote in the boat. “Now I don’t like killing innocent people it is forbidden in Islam but due to said [bullet hole] it is allowed. All credit goes [bullet hole].”

Photographs of the note showed Tsarnaev’s penmanship was remarkably firm and neat, and the clarity of the note suggested he wrote it before several bullets were fired into the boat when it was surrounded by police.

Tsarnaev was located in the boat after he and his older brother, Tamerlan, allegedly murdered MIT Police Officer Sean Collier on April 18, 2013, and then engaged in a violent confrontation early on April 19, 2013. In that confrontation, a Transit Police officer was shot and Tamerlan was fatally wounded when he was shot and his brother drove over him, authorities have said.

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Live tweets from Trial | Day 5
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial: Watertown boat was shot over 126 times

MASSLIVE.COM | March 16, 2015 at 11:57 AM
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BOSTON — Jurors in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev learned that the Watertown boat that he took refuge in was shot over 126 times before he was captured during an out of court field trip on Monday.

The jurors, attorneys and judge in the case, along with two pool reporters from The Associated Press and WBUR, were accompanied by a heavy security detail as they viewed the Slip Away 2 at an undisclosed location before the start of formal proceedings in Tsarnaev's trial.

The bullet-riddled boat, covered in shrink wrap since it was taken as evidence by the FBI, was largely unchanged from the day Tsarnaev spent inside it. Broken glass was still visible inside and the majority of the bullet holes appeared to be near the center and higher sections of the boat, particularly on the side where the long note by Tsarnaev was found.

FBI evidence teams identified over 200 pieces of evidence on the boat.

Tsarnaev's long note was written mostly in pencil though there was a third portion that was carved. There was no sign of the pencil or a carving utensil.

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Prosecutors Show Photos of Pressure Cooker Bombs in Tsarnaev Trial

Agent says shrapnel from explosives found up to a block away

necn.com | March 19, 2015
By Alysha Palumbo


Thursday, jurors got a never-before-seen look at the devastation left behind after the gun battle and explosions on Laurel Street in Watertown, Massachusetts, during the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

FBI Special Agent Brian Corcoran testified the pressure cooker bomb that was hurled at police as they took cover behind a tree, blew shrapnel in people's yards, on roofs, embedded in houses and ended up as far as a block away.

The majority of the mangled pressure cooker was found embedded in a car parked in a driveway near 62 Laurel Street

Corcoran testified the Fagor pressure cooker was the same brand as the pressure cooker bombs that exploded near the marathon finish line.

Jurors also saw the lid of the pressure cooker that was blown into a hockey net in a yard four houses down and across the street.

And the locking mechanism for the pressure cooker lid, which was found imbedded in a home at 55 Laurel St.

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DA Will Prosecute Tsarnaev For Cop's Murder After Bombing Trial

NBCNEWS.COM | March 19, 2015
By Tom Winter and Jon Schuppe


A Massachusetts district attorney said Thursday that she planned to prosecutor accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier after his current federal trial ends.

Tsarnaev already faces the possibility of the death penalty if convicted on charges he engineered the bombings, allegedly with his older brother, Tamerlan, who died in a shootout with police following Collier's killing.

Collier was killed on the night of April 18, 2013, during the frantic search for the suspects. His killing marked the start of a series of crimes the brothers allegedly committed in the manhunt's final 24 hours.

It was followed by a carjacking, a shootout with police, Tamerlan's death, and, finally, the discovery of Dzhokhar hiding in a boat parked behind a house in Watertown, a Boston suburb.

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Boston Marathon Bombing Trial: Timeline of Events That Lead to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Capture

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By AARON KATERSKY | Mar 20, 2015


The start of the trial was about the crime. By the end of this week, federal prosecutors had established a timeline of incredible events that led to alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capture.

Prosecutors said authorities confronted Tsarnaev and his brother. It followed an eight-minute battle with police. Quiet, leafy Laurel Street in Watertown, Massachusetts, was left scarred by explosives.

"They're throwing bombs at us. We need the bomb squad," a Massachusetts state trooper recalled hearing over the radio before he heard "some type of explosive and saw smoke in the street lamps."

A bomb made from the same kind of pressure cooker used at the marathon became embedded in the door of someone's car. The lid landed in a kid's hockey goal. Shrapnel was found up to a block away, authorities said.

The jury saw two undetonated pipe bombs that had been "full" of explosive powder and "lined with BBs." A trooper called them improvised grenades.

A policeman testified that Tsarnaev tossed them over his head like a hook shot. His brother threw them like a baseball. James Floyd, who lived on the street, saw "a fuse being lit" and "two individuals firing."

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial: Prosecution expected to wrap up this week

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By Garrett Quinn | March 23, 2015


BOSTON — The prosecution's case in the trial of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to concluded sometime this week.

The prosecution's presentation of evidence found on the electronic devices in the possession of the Tsarnaev brothers will continue Monday with FBI Special Agent Kevin Swindon due back on the stand.

Prosecutors showed jurors on Thursday numerous digital copies of radical Islamic magazines and lectures stored on Tsarnaev's dorm room laptop and Cambridge home computer.

Tsarnaev had multiple copies of the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula publication Inspire Magazine stored on his laptop. The magazine is known for interviews with Islamic radicals, inspirational quotes for would-be terrorists, and instructions on how to build explosive devices.

At least one of Tsarnaev's friends from UMass-Dartmouth is expected to testify in court this week. The prosecution's witness list is not available to the public under the order of Judge George O'Toole.

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This one hits a bit too close to home. Moved to Boston area as newlywed & still have fondness for Marathon Day aka Patriots Day with the one day reprieve for 4/15 tax return. More relevant Cousin was running as a consolation for Sandy washing out NYC marathon. NYC was her dream, the only top 50 she hadn't run despite growing up and living less than an hour away. She runs for her parents who are both Cancer survivors, who were part of group of 16 relatives walking away as explosion rocked their world. They were all interviewed but none will be testifying.

Her dad, my uncle is in Boston with his wife keeping tabs on the trial and teaching Roxbury/Dorchester kids how to play music enjoying the fact that the kids there don't care about his Juilliard pedigree.


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Tsarnaev complained of relatives falsely accused of terrorism

BostonGlobe | March 24, 2015
By Milton J. Valencia and Patricia Wen


Weeks before the 2013 Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother went to a New Hampshire firing range for shooting practice. In a form, Tsarnaev listed his experience with a handgun as “intermediate,” and for $170.75 the brothers spent an hour with a Glock 17 and a Glock 34, shooting through four boxes of ammunition.

Prosecutors say the brothers used their practiced skills to kill an MIT police officer days after the April 15, 2013, bombing, and again when they shot at police in Watertown.

For much of the day Tuesday, prosecutors in Tsarnaev’s federal death penalty trial focused on his familiarity with a gun, and the mayhem caused by the firefight with police in Watertown as the brothers sought to flee. At least 256 rounds were fired in a residential neighborhood. One bullet pierced the wall of a nearby house and entered a room, and an MBTA police officer was struck — possibly by crossfire — and nearly died.

Jurors also heard from an FBI agent who detailed the evidence discovered in Tsarnaev’s dorm room, including a box of BBs, a receipt for a Smith & Wesson replica BB gun, and the white hat prosecutors say Tsarnaev was wearing the day of the Marathon bombings.

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Boston Bombing Trial: Possible Bomb Parts Found in Tsarnaev Home

NBCNEWS.COM | March 25, 2015
By Tom Winter, Andy Thibault and Jon Schuppe


BOSTON — During the manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, FBI agents combed the brothers' Cambridge, Massachusetts, apartment for evidence and found an array of nails, BBs, wire, a battery charger, a fuse and parts of pressure cookers that they considered possible ingredients of a homemade bomb like those used to kill three people and injure hundreds at the race's finish line, one of the agents told a jury Wednesday.

One of the rooms "almost looked like a construction site," Special Agent Christopher Derks said, testifying in the terror trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the brothers. "There were tools everywhere, lots of debris."

The search, on April 19, 2013 — four days after the bombings — took place as the hunt for the brothers was approaching a culmination. That day, Tamerlan, 26, was killed during a shootout with police and Dzhokhar, 19 at the time, was found many hours later hiding in a boat parked behind a Watertown, Massachusetts, house.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a student at the University of Massachusetts, where he lived in a dormitory, and had most recently lived in the apartment on Norfolk Street in Cambridge, with his brother, his brother's wife and their daughter.

The dorm room was also searched. An FBI agent testified Tuesday and Wednesday about finding a box of BBs and a receipt for a Smith & Wesson BB gun, the same kind found at the shootout scene. Agents also found a white hat that matched the one he was wearing when he was captured on security video at the bombing scene. A large firework and a book about Islamic fighters in Afghanistan and Pakistan were also in the room.

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The 13th Juror: The radicalization of Jahar

CNN.com | March 28, 2015
By Ann O'Neill@AnnoCNN


Boston - Listen closely to the testimony in federal court and you begin to learn how a 19-year-old stoner who played Jay-Z, watched "The Walking Dead" and referred to himself on a resume as "nice" and a "people person" came to embrace violent global jihad.

The government has built a compelling case for guilt: Testimony has ranged from bombing survivors' dramatic accounts to fellow officers who found a rookie executed for his gun; from a frantic carjacking victim to a final showdown in a sleeping suburb that left a pressure cooker bomb embedded in a car door and sent bullets through the walls of a second-story bedroom.

Investigators have mined data from GPS devices and matched them to store receipts to track the purchases of the backpacks, BBs and 6-quart pressure cookers used to make two bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Prosecutors will likely rest their case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday. And then Tsarnaev's lawyers will get their turn. Their presentation is expected to be brief; the defense admits he did it and doesn't dispute many of the facts, just how they are being spun.

This part of the story and who takes charge of the narrative could very well determine whether he spends the rest of his life in federal prison or is executed for his crimes. How did Tsarnaev come to be a bomber, and what role did his older brother, Tamerlan, play?

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Boston bombing trial: Live updates from Day 16, the first full day of defense case

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By Garrett Quinn | March 31, 2015


BOSTON — The defense team for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is set to begin their first full day making their case in court on Tuesday.

The defense team called two witnesses Monday that delivered testimony in a manner that appeared aimed at differentiating the actions of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Gerry Grant, a computer forensics expert for public defenders, pointed to cell phone tower data that indicated Dzhokhar's cell phone was in the Dartmouth area at the time pressure cookers and other bomb making components were purchased.

The government argued that Grant's credentials were questionable at best and that his knowledge of AT&T services was extremely limited.

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Marathon bombing trial to go to jury as defense rests
Tsarnaev team rests after it calls only 4 witnesses


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By Milton J. Valencia and Patricia Wen | March 31, 2015


After 15 days of victims recounting their injuries, experts testifying about explosives and terrorism, and witnesses detailing the deaths of three people in the Boston Marathon bombings, the defense team of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had its turn to make a case.

It was over in six hours.

Lawyers for Tsarnaev rested their case Tuesday after calling just four witnesses whose testimony fit the unfolding defense argument that Tsarnaev’s older brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind of the April 15, 2013, bombings. The defense is expected to elaborate on that theory if the case moves to the second phase of the trial, when jurors would decide Tsarnaev’s sentence.

“At this time, we rest,” said Judy Clarke, one of Tsarnaev’s attorneys.

Tsarnaev, 21, has already admitted through his lawyers that he took part in the bombings that killed three and injured hundreds. He and his older brother also killed MIT police Officer Sean Collier three days after the bombing and engaged police in a violent firefight in Watertown.

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Rough road ahead for jurors in Boston Marathon trial

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Two decades have passed since Timothy McVeigh set off a truck bomb outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, but the memory remains vivid for Tonya McCabe, who sat on the jury that sentenced him to die.

"I still want to think the best of people, but there is a part of me that was changed," said McCabe, who was 24 in 1997 when Gulf War veteran McVeigh was sentenced to death. "That natural instinct I had to think that people had the best intentions; after the trial, I didn't feel that way anymore."

Jury members in the Boston Marathon bombing trial may be in for a similarly formative experience on Monday. That's when they will begin their formal deliberations over whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 at the race's finish line on April 15, 2013, and fatally shooting a police officer three days later.

About six out of ten jurors who sit on capital trials describe the experience as "emotionally upsetting," according to a 2008 study by Michael Antonio, a professor of criminal justice at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

More than a third of 1,198 jurors who sat on 353 capital juries also experienced physical symptoms of stress during or after the trials, he said.

"It's not an easy job," said Jim Manspeaker, who retired in 2003 from a 41-year-long career as clerk of the federal district court in Denver, where McVeigh's trial was held. "Jury duty is a big responsibility. There is no question."

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Prosecutor, in Closing Argument, Depicts Boston Marathon Bombings Defendant as Extremist

NYTimes.com | April 6, 2015
By Katharine W. Seelye and Richard A. Oppel, Jr.


BOSTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, on trial in the 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon, was an extremist who “wanted to punish America,” a prosecutor, Aloke Chakravarty, said Monday during the government’s closing statement.

“That day, they felt they were soldiers,” Mr. Chakravarty, an assistant United States attorney, said of Mr. Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, now dead, as Mr. Chakravarty described the attacks as a deliberate act, planned in retaliation for American-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In depicting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an intellectually committed jihadist, bent on getting revenge through the premeditated killing of innocent women and children, Mr. Chakravarty showed jurors scenes of the bloody aftermath of the bombings. He then contrasted those images with Mr. Tsarnaev’s calm demeanor in the hours and days that followed: Mr. Tsarnaev casually buying milk right after the explosions, writing a Twitter message a day later about how he was “a stress free kind of guy,” and writing a note just before his capture that said, “Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop.”

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