Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old accused in the Boston Marathon bombings was so well-liked that many of his friends say they’d be willing to testify on his behalf at trial.
The teen, who was naturalized as an American citizen on Sept. 11, 2012, is in police custody in a Boston hospital after surrendering Friday night. His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a firefight with police a day earlier.
Meanwhile, the Associated Press on Saturday released a photo of police searching the younger suspect as he lay on the ground following his dramatic capture.
The brothers came to America with their family a decade ago and the younger Dzhokhar appears to have adapted to life in the U.S. better than his brother. Tamerlan, a boxer who aspired to make the Olympics, once told a photographer shooting a photo essay on him that he didn’t understand Americans and didn’t have a single American friend.
But Dzhokhar was liked by people who knew him. Many were stunned to learn he was a suspect in the Monday bombing that killed three people and injured more than 176 near the finish line of the race. They expressed thoughts that the elder Tamerlan may have had a bad influence on him.
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WOW The defense team already has college classmate willing to testifying to what a nice kid Dzhokhar was and that his brother was the real loner misfit and how he was a bad influence on the younger brother. They will have the Russia request to the FBI to prove the older brother was the real suspected threat. They have the fact the older brother was the one that traveled back to Russia where he could have been training with terrorists. And they have the social media web pages of the older brother to prove who was the dangerous brother. Then they have the law enforcements conflicting stories of the hours before Dzhokhar's arrest to put doubt in the minds of the jury of what he was really doing when he was hiding in the boat. Was he armed and firing on law enforcement hence the rapid gun fire that the judge witnessed or was he unarmed, bleeding and hiding in fear for his life after seeing what happen to his brother. UNARMED like the FBI announced after the arrest.
BTW They just said he had been bleeding for twenty hours when he was arrested as he was shot during the first firefight that killed his brother. So just how much of a fight could he have put up after losing that much blood?
I don't want to see this perp get off but the defense team that is not even named yet has some strong items on their side to get this kid off with a lesser charge.
A judge just said on FOX that the only thing that could take the death penalty off the table is if the defense team uses his brother's influence over him as a defense. A Prosecutor followed the judge and also said the idea that the older brother lead the younger brother astray could be a defense against the death penalty.