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| Friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber found guilty of lying |
| 2014-10-29 |
| [ARABNEWS] A US jury on Tuesday found a college friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber guilty of lying to authorities in a terrorism investigation. Robel Phillipos, 21, was charged with lying about having visited suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaevâs dorm room three days after the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. Phillipos and two friends removed a backpack containing empty fireworks shells from the suspected bomberâs room. Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was on trial for two criminal counts of lying to investigators, one for saying he did not remember the visit and one for denying it. He later signed a written confession admitting to it, following an FBI interrogation. Philliposâ attorneys had contended that their client was too intoxicated on marijuana the day of the visit to have a clear memory of his actions on April 18, 2013, and thus could not have lied. Over seven days of testimony, a series of FBI agents testified that Phillipos gave conflicting statements about the visit to Tsarnaevâs room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth before signing a statement that he did go. Of the two friends who accompanied him, both Kazakh exchange students, Azamat Tazhayakov was convicted in July and Dias Kadyrbayev pleaded guilty in August of removing a backpack from the room during a massive manhunt for the bomber. Defense witnesses included Philliposâ college and high school friends, who testified to his marijuana use and former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, a family friend, who described Phillipos as having been confused during his FBI interviews. Tsarnaev, 21, is awaiting trial on charges that carry the death penalty. His brother, who prosecutors said helped carry out the bombing, died after a shootout with police late on the night of April 18, 2013. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Next stop? "Robel, ya got a purty mouth" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-10-29 18:19 |
| #5 Friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber found guilty of lying So do we reopen the John Mitchell wing of the Federal Bureau of Prisons for this gaggle of administration apparatchiks or do we need to build an entirely new facility to house them all? Cause if lying is a convictable crime, we got a herd to gather up. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-10-29 08:53 |
| #4 Remove evidence to help a terrorist and be tried as one of the conspirators. It is only fair. Treason and terrorism need to be treated as the vile ctees they are, not just youthful indescretions. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-10-29 07:35 |
| #3 Phillipos’ attorneys had contended that their client was too intoxicated on marijuana the day of the visit to have a clear memory of his actions on April 18, 2013, and thus could not have lied. BULLSHIT. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-10-29 06:41 |
| #2 Correct - that's why Tamerlan's now called Speedbump around here... |
| Posted by: Raj 2014-10-29 00:45 |
| #1 His brother, who prosecutors said helped carry out the bombing, died after a shootout with police I thought it was from getting run over by our Rolling Stone cover-boy. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-10-29 00:42 |