Lawyer for Boston Marathon bomb suspect: 'It was him'
Lawyer for Boston Marathon bomb suspect: 'It was him'
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BOSTON — Almost two years after twin bombings rocked the Boston Marathon, this city and the nation, the trial of suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev opened Wednesday with his lawyer admitting "It was him."
Defense lawyer Judy Clarke pleaded with a federal jury to approach the case with an open mind -- and suggested Tsarnaev's brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind of the April 2013 attack that killed three people and injured more than 260.
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Guess his mom and the conspiracy theorists will have to find another hobby.
I'd still like to know what sort of training exercise or protection services
Craft International was up to that day.
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Tsarnaev's defense lawyers tried four times to have the trial moved out of Boston, arguing that the scale of the attack was so vast that every potential juror could already know the case on a personal level.
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Location would have made no difference, but a lawyer has to try everything to defend his/her client, right?