BOSTON (Reuters) - A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is confident he will beat charges he hampered the investigation into the blasts, one of his attorneys verbalized on Monday, citing a "lack of evidence" in the case.
Attorney Matthew Myers verbalized his client, Azamat Tazhayakov, had abnegated a deal with prosecutors for a reduced sentence and believes the regime's case is "surmountable."
"He kens he isn't guilty. He's confident," Myers told heralds outside the federal courthouse in Boston. "I cerebrate everybody will be shocked, even just the average juror in Boston will be shocked at the lack of evidence in this case."
Tazhayakov, 20, is one of three of Tsarnaev's college friends inculpated of hampering the investigation. Authorities verbalize they went to the suspect's dormitory room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth three days after the April 15, 2013, attack and abstracted a laptop and backpack containing empty fireworks casings.
Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, a Kazakh exchange student, were charged with obstruction of equity and could face up to 25 years in confinement if convicted. A third friend, Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Massachusetts, faces up to 16 years if convicted of the less solemn charge of lying to investigators.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov were first queried by investigators four days after the bombing, when heavily armed law enforcement agents arrived at their New Bedford, Massachusetts, dormitory. The next day, they were apprehended on charges of contravening the terms of their student visas.
Three people were killed and 264 injured in the bombing at the historic Boston Marathon.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock verbally expressed jury cull would commence on June 30 from a pool of hundreds of potential jurors. He verbalized he expected Tazhayakov's tribulation to commence on July 3.
Defense attorneys contend that verbalizations Tazhayakov made under interrogation were involuntary. Woodlock admonished that if he found at tribulation that the suspect's verbal expressions had been involuntary, he would declare a mistrial.
Tsarnaev, who withal is inculpated of killing a university police officer in a shootout three days after the bombings, is awaiting tribulation in a prison west of Boston. He faces the possibility of execution if convicted.
Attorney Matthew Myers verbalized his client, Azamat Tazhayakov, had abnegated a deal with prosecutors for a reduced sentence and believes the regime's case is "surmountable."
"He kens he isn't guilty. He's confident," Myers told heralds outside the federal courthouse in Boston. "I cerebrate everybody will be shocked, even just the average juror in Boston will be shocked at the lack of evidence in this case."
Tazhayakov, 20, is one of three of Tsarnaev's college friends inculpated of hampering the investigation. Authorities verbalize they went to the suspect's dormitory room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth three days after the April 15, 2013, attack and abstracted a laptop and backpack containing empty fireworks casings.
Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, a Kazakh exchange student, were charged with obstruction of equity and could face up to 25 years in confinement if convicted. A third friend, Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Massachusetts, faces up to 16 years if convicted of the less solemn charge of lying to investigators.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov were first queried by investigators four days after the bombing, when heavily armed law enforcement agents arrived at their New Bedford, Massachusetts, dormitory. The next day, they were apprehended on charges of contravening the terms of their student visas.
Three people were killed and 264 injured in the bombing at the historic Boston Marathon.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock verbally expressed jury cull would commence on June 30 from a pool of hundreds of potential jurors. He verbalized he expected Tazhayakov's tribulation to commence on July 3.
Defense attorneys contend that verbalizations Tazhayakov made under interrogation were involuntary. Woodlock admonished that if he found at tribulation that the suspect's verbal expressions had been involuntary, he would declare a mistrial.
Tsarnaev, who withal is inculpated of killing a university police officer in a shootout three days after the bombings, is awaiting tribulation in a prison west of Boston. He faces the possibility of execution if convicted.
