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Friends of accused Boston bomber to face June coverup trial
Source: Reuters
Friends of accused Boston bomber to face June coverup trial
BY SCOTT MALONE
BOSTON Wed Jan 15, 2014 4:33pm EST
(Reuters) - Three college friends of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will go on trial in June on charges they helped hide his tracks from the FBI, a U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock denied a joint request by prosecutors and two of the defendants - Dias Kadyrbayev of Kazakhstan and Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Massachusetts - to put the trial off until early next year to give defense attorneys more time to sort through millions of pages of evidence surrounding the bombing investigation.
The judge ruled their trial in Boston federal court would begin on June 23, even earlier than the July start that third defendant Azamat Tazhayakov, also of Kazakhstan, had requested.
"We'll get to this quite promptly," Woodlock said at a pretrial hearing. "The issues that are involved here have to deal with something very specific."
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BY SCOTT MALONE
BOSTON Wed Jan 15, 2014 4:33pm EST
(Reuters) - Three college friends of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will go on trial in June on charges they helped hide his tracks from the FBI, a U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday.
U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock denied a joint request by prosecutors and two of the defendants - Dias Kadyrbayev of Kazakhstan and Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Massachusetts - to put the trial off until early next year to give defense attorneys more time to sort through millions of pages of evidence surrounding the bombing investigation.
The judge ruled their trial in Boston federal court would begin on June 23, even earlier than the July start that third defendant Azamat Tazhayakov, also of Kazakhstan, had requested.
"We'll get to this quite promptly," Woodlock said at a pretrial hearing. "The issues that are involved here have to deal with something very specific."
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/15/us-usa-explosions-boston-idUSBREA0E19C20140115