According to US Attorney Carmen Ortiz for the District of Massachusetts, 23 year-old Khairullozhon Matanov, who has befriended slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had intentionally deleted information from his computer and lied to investigators in the probe.
According to a court filing by the defense lawyers of Boston Marathon bomber suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev, their client's rights were violated when he was subjected to a 36-hour interrogation without breaks or a lawyer present twenty hours after he was wheeled in at a hospital almost dying from gunshot wounds obtained from a police manhunt.
Family, friends and supporters of slain Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, who was killed by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly for his gun, remembered him in a ceremony on Friday, The Los Angeles Times said.
Although Judge George A. O'Toole did not decide on Wednesday regarding the restrictions imposed on Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, he has suggested to prosecutors to agree on either lifting the placement of a federal agent during the defendant's meetings with his sisters in prison or assign one that does not belong to the prosecution's team.
The defense lawyers of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev might be compelled by a court judge to turn over information on whether they will be presenting mental health issued during the defendant's scheduled trial in November regarding the Boston Marathon bombings, USA Today said.
Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspected Boston Marathon bomber, on Friday said the defendant's older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was the mastermind behind the incident that killed three people. His lawyers also said that he was asked to be an informant for the FBI.
The Wall Street Journal said Boston State Attorney Jeffrey Ashton is expected to clear the FBI agent who shot and MMA fighter Ibragim Todashev, of whom the authorities have said had ties with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Kazakh exchange students Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, and Robel Phillipos, who are friends with suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, will be facing obstruction of justice-related charges after failing to get their hearing delayed due to unpreparedness, Reuters said.
U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. ordered on Wednesday that Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should stand trial on November 3, "rejecting defense lawyers' arguments that they need nearly a year long that to shift through thousands of pieces of evidence and interview witnesses around the globe as they prepare for the complex death penalty case," The Boston Globe reported.
US District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr rejected the trial date extension of the defense lawyers of suspected Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and said that a November 3 trial is fair and realistic.
Former first assistant US attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr told the Wall Street Journal that a request to delay the trial of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made sense as the case was very complex.
Crime stories inundated "the headlines in 2013 like no year in recent history," according to The Huffington Post. "In the past 12 months, we've seen the Boston Marathon bombing, the release of three kidnapped women who were held in Cleveland, and the verdict of George Zimmerman,"
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's note, which was discovered by law enforcement officers as he bled from a boat in a Watertown, Massachusetts backyard, reportedly was meant as a call-to-arms
As thousands of Boston Red Sox fans poured out of Fenway Park celebrating their team's 6-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6 to wrap up the 2013 World Series, many made their way to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the slain Boston Marathon bomber, was confirmed by prosecutors as a participant in a triple homicide on September 11, 2011 in Waltham, Massachusetts
In response to his outrage following Rolling Stone magazine's decision to put Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its front cover, Sergeant Sean Murphy, a Massachusetts State Police tactical photographer who was working during the massive manhunt to capture the Tsarnaev brothers, released photos of the apprehended terror suspect without permission from his agency.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face the death penalty if convicted of planning and committing the attack. It will be the first time he is see since he was found bleeding and hiding in Watertown, Massachusetts, a few days after the attack
The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces a 30-count indictment by a federal grand jury charging him with using weapons of mass destruction and killing 4 people. The indictment alleged that Tsarnaev, inspired by Al-Qaeda publication (specifically Inspire) had allegedly left a confession in the boat where he was captured in a Watertown Massachusetts backyard writing, "I don't like killing innocent people," but had been justified because of U.S. government actions abroad.
Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombings, threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park before Tuesday night's Phillies-Red Sox game. Carlos Arredondo, his rescuer on the April 15 attacks, pushed Bauman out to the mound in a wheelchair.
FBI agents shot and killed 26-year-old Chechen Ibragim Todashev in Orlando Florida overnight. Todashev, reportedly, knew, and "hung out" with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the past.While Todashev wa not involved in the bombings, the FBI has been following him ever since, and routinely questioned him at an apartment complex near Universal Studios in central Florida.
Massachusetts investigators have developed what they call "mounting evidence," bolstered by "forensic hits," that point to the possible involvement of both Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar in a triple homicide that took place in 2011.
