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Tsarnaev lawyers lose bid for info in ’11 slayings (AP) A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request from lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to order prosecutors to turn over evidence about his older brother’s possible participation in a 2011 triple killing. The defense was seeking details of statements from Ibragim Todashev about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s role in the unsolved killings of three men in Waltham, just west of Boston. Todashev was shot and killed at his Florida home while being questioned by the FBI and the Massachusetts State Police. Authorities have said an FBI agent shot Todashev after he charged at a state trooper, but Todashev’s family has challenged that account. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers had urged Judge George O’Toole Jr. to compel prosecutors to turn over any information they have about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s involvement in the triple slaying because it could bolster a defense argument that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was influenced or coerced by his brother to participate in the deadly marathon bombing. The lawyers declined to comment after the judge’s ruling. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces the possibility of the death penalty if he is convicted in the April 2013 bombing. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when two bombs exploded near the finish [...] newsinfl/tsarnaev-lawyers-lose-bid-for-info-in-11-slayings/
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 01:45:26 +0000

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