BOSTON -- A verdict has been reached in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the admitted bomber of the 2013 Boston Marathon.
The jury of five men and seven women began deliberating April 7 on 30 federal charges, including bombing of a public place, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and carjacking. The verdict is due to be delivered at 1:45 p.m. ET.
Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to all charges, though his lead attorney Judy Clarke began the trial on March 4 with the admission that he joined his brother in the April 15, 2013, bombing that killed three and wounded 264 others.
An administrator for the U.S. District Court in Boston announced that the jury had rendered a verdict, which will be at 1:45 p.m.
Among the charges are 17 capital crimes. If the jurors convict Tsarnaev, 21, of any of the most serious crimes, the trial enters a penalty phase. The same jury will hear more testimony and choose whether Tsarnaev receives the death penalty or life behind bars without parole.
The bulk of the charges were connected to the attack on the marathon, in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, detonated two homemade pressure cooker bombs near the crowded finish line of the race on Boylston Street. The three people killed were Martin Richard, 8; Lingzi Lu, 23; and Krystle Campbell, 29.
The charges also cover a carjacking, the fatal shooting of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier and a shootout with Watertown, Massachusetts, in which the brothers threw more homemade bombs and fired at police.
The prosecution presented a mountain of evidence. It called 92 witnesses, including amputees who lost a leg from the bombing; the father of Martin Richard; Watertown cops who came under attack by the Tsarnaev brothers; an FBI agent who catalogued jihadist material on Tsarnaev’s electronic devices; and Tsarnaev’s boyhood friend who gave him the semi-automatic pistol allegedly used to kill Collier.
The trial began March 4 and moved faster than expected because the defense didn't cross-examine victims of the bombing. Tsarnaev's attorneys also only called four witnesses in an attempt to show that Tamerlan was the mastermind of the attack.
“We don’t deny that Dzhokhar fully participated in the events," Clarke said during closing arguments on April 6. "But if it were not for Tamerlan, it would not have happened."
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The jury of five men and seven women began deliberating April 7 on 30 federal charges, including bombing of a public place, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and carjacking. The verdict is due to be delivered at 1:45 p.m. ET.
Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to all charges, though his lead attorney Judy Clarke began the trial on March 4 with the admission that he joined his brother in the April 15, 2013, bombing that killed three and wounded 264 others.
An administrator for the U.S. District Court in Boston announced that the jury had rendered a verdict, which will be at 1:45 p.m.
Among the charges are 17 capital crimes. If the jurors convict Tsarnaev, 21, of any of the most serious crimes, the trial enters a penalty phase. The same jury will hear more testimony and choose whether Tsarnaev receives the death penalty or life behind bars without parole.
The bulk of the charges were connected to the attack on the marathon, in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, detonated two homemade pressure cooker bombs near the crowded finish line of the race on Boylston Street. The three people killed were Martin Richard, 8; Lingzi Lu, 23; and Krystle Campbell, 29.
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The charges also cover a carjacking, the fatal shooting of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier and a shootout with Watertown, Massachusetts, in which the brothers threw more homemade bombs and fired at police.
The prosecution presented a mountain of evidence. It called 92 witnesses, including amputees who lost a leg from the bombing; the father of Martin Richard; Watertown cops who came under attack by the Tsarnaev brothers; an FBI agent who catalogued jihadist material on Tsarnaev’s electronic devices; and Tsarnaev’s boyhood friend who gave him the semi-automatic pistol allegedly used to kill Collier.
The trial began March 4 and moved faster than expected because the defense didn't cross-examine victims of the bombing. Tsarnaev's attorneys also only called four witnesses in an attempt to show that Tamerlan was the mastermind of the attack.
“We don’t deny that Dzhokhar fully participated in the events," Clarke said during closing arguments on April 6. "But if it were not for Tamerlan, it would not have happened."
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