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    Trial For Suspected Boston Bomber Tsarnaev To Begin

    Trial For Suspected Boston Bomber Tsarnaev To Begin

    BY HASANI GITTENS

    More than a year after the Boston Marathon bombing, the first trial is about to get underway.

    Opening statements are expected Monday in the trial of Azamat Tazhayakov, a 20-year-old friend of the accused suspects who is charged with obstruction.

    Prosecutors say he and another friend, Dias Kadyrbayev, took a backpack containing fireworks from surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth after seeing his picture on the news.

    Prosecutors have been building a case against Tsarnaev, who is accused with his older brother, Tamerlan, of plotting and carrying out the April 15, 2013, bombing. Two pressure cookers loaded with shrapnel and explosives blew up near the marathon finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 260. Tamerlan died in a manhunt after the attack.

    Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's backpack was later recovered in a landfill. Kadyrbayev's trial on similar charges is scheduled to begin in September.NEWS

    In the Tazhayakov case, the trial is expected to last about three weeks. He could get five years in prison if convicted. Pre-trial documents have been sealed, and the judge has admonished the attorneys for speaking to the media in the past.

    Arkady Bukh, the lead defense attorney, told NBC News on Thursday that his client “loved Boston.”

    “My client has great respect for the people of Boston. Even after the arrest, he had a lot of respect,” Bukh said. "He is really sorry for the people who suffered, who died. He loved Boston, and the people of Boston. He never had the intent to hurt anyone.”

    JANE FLAVELL COLLINS / AP FILE
    This courtroom sketch shows defendant Azamat Tazhayakov, college friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, during a hearing in federal court on May 13, 2014, in Boston.During a pre-trial hearing, another of Tazhayakov’s lawyers, Matthew Meyers, said that prosecutors had offered his client a deal if he agreed to plea to lesser charges, but he rejected it.

    "He's confident," Meyers said. "He knows he's not guilty."
    Meyers refused to disclose the terms of the deal, and prosecutors would not confirm it.

    Meyers said that his client was being punished simply for having a friendship with Tsarnaev.

    "Even the average juror in Boston will be shocked by the lack of evidence," he said.

    Tsarnaev's trial: What's next?


    Justice is moving more slowly in the main bombing case. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is scheduled for trial in November. Federal prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty.

    Just last week, Tsarnaev’s lawyers clashed with prosecutors over the defense's desire to move the trial to a more neutral venue.

    Defense lawyers have said a survey conducted in May showed "an overwhelming presumption of guilt" and a view that the death penalty should be imposed on the surviving brother.

    They also said a high number of people in the potential jury pool attended or participated in the Boston Marathon last year or know someone who did.

    But federal prosecutors countered that the defense has submitted only "unreliable, unexplained poll results" alleging juror bias. At the least, prosecutors said, a potential jury pool should be examined using questionnaires to see whether an impartial jury can be assembled.

    It took little more than two days to pick a jury for the Tazhayakov trial.

    His father, Amir Ismagulov, told NBC News on Thursday night that he had moved to the United States from Kazakhstan on April 25, 2013,
    to be closer to his son after his involvement with the case. His wife followed that June.

    "My son is hundred percent innocent," he said in Russian. "There is no doubt about it."

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    The toking gun: Boston bomb obstruction trial in pot lingo haze

    The toking gun: Boston bomb obstruction trial in pot lingo haze

    Reuters 3:37 p.m. CDT, July 8, 2014

    BOSTON (Reuters) - Lawyers defending a man charged with obstructing the Boston Marathon bombing investigation had no problem hearing their client described as "cooked," but wanted to be clear on Tuesday that the slang term meant high on marijuana.

    The first two days of Kazakh exchange student Azamat Tazhayakov's trial on obstruction charges featured repeated debate about the meaning of drug slang, with witnesses describing regular marijuana use in the accused bomber's social circle.

    "If someone says you're 'cooked,' you're stoned, right? It has nothing to do with bombs," defense attorney Nicholas Wooldridge asked a college friend of Tazhayakov, referring to a text message in which Tsarnaev used that term to describe the defendant.

    The witness, Alexa Guevara, said Tsarnaev and his friends used a variety of code-words to refer to smoking pot: "There was 'roll up,' as in 'let's smoke,' 'do you have bud?'"

    But under prosecutors' examination, she denied defense lawyers' contention that three days after the deadly blasts Tsarnaev would have used the "smiley face" emoticon in a text message urging a college friend to go to his room and "take anything you want" as a code for smoking pot.

    "Did you ever use a plain smiley face to mean, 'let's go get high?'" Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Siegmann asked Guevara, who responded: "No."

    Tazhayakov is the first of three of Tsarnaev's friends to go on trial on charges of hampering the investigation by going to the bombing suspect's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth three days after the bombing and removing a laptop and backpack containing empty fireworks casings. [ID:nL2N0PJ0HQ]

    Tazhayakov has pleaded not guilty and Wooldridge on Monday denied that his client touched either the laptop or backpack, saying that was the work of another friend, Dias Kadyrbayev, who is awaiting trial on similar charges later this year.

    He said his client was more interested in a bag of marijuana they found that night, which the two smoked once they returned to their apartment.

    "As soon as he found that marijuana they stopped looking around," Wooldridge said.

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    Boston Marathon bomber trial delayed two months, judge rules

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    The federal judge overseeing the case of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev agreed Wednesday evening to delay the trial start date for two months, but rejected a defense request to move the case out of the Boston area...
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