Friend Of Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Found Guilty Of Lying To Authorities

BI - Reuters ^ | 10-28-2014 | Ross Kerber

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Ross Kerber, Reuters
October 28, 2014

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 Tsarnaev's 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 bomber's 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.

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Defense witnesses included Phillipos' 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.

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[muir_redwoods]

Treason. Simple. Execution."

Really? Let's try this.

"Do you own a gun, sir? How many rounds to the magazines hold?"

Execution for that?

[freedumb2003]

>>Put him at Fenway the next time the Yankees or the Rays are in town.<<

The fans from all those teams will find common cause!