US: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to appear in court in Boston Marathon bombing case The 19-year old is scheduled to appear before a federal judge in Boston to answer a 30-count indictment for the April 15 attack and subsequent manhunt. The twin blasts near the marathon finish line killed three and injured 264. Security will be tight at the waterfront courthouse where the teenager will be arraigned before Judge Marianne Bowler on the charges, 17 of which are punishable by death, including use of a weapon of mass destruction. Tsnaraev, who is being held in a prison hospital outside of Boston, is expected to enter a plea at the hearing. In addition to the injuries and deaths from the blasts, Tsnaraev is charged with killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer as he fled the authorities with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Tamerlan, who investigators believe assembled the two pressure cooker bombs that were detonated in a crowd of spectators near the marathon finish line, was killed during a shootout with police three days after the blast. Dzhokhar Tsnaraev was found seriously injured as he hid in a boat on April 19, a day after his brother was killed. (New York Daily News)
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:53:39 +0000
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