{"id":40093,"date":"2013-07-11T12:50:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T09:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=40093"},"modified":"2013-07-11T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T10:24:23","slug":"boston-bombingmarathon-bomber-chechen-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-claimed-his-not-guilty-us-news-40093","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/boston-bombingmarathon-bomber-chechen-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-claimed-his-not-guilty-us-news-40093\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Bombing:Marathon Bomber Chechen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev claimed his not guilty \/ US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Chechen Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to 30 charges including the use of a weapon of mass destruction.<\/h1>\n

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, entered his plea during his first public appearance in court Wednesday. More than half of the charges lobbed against him potentially imply the death penalty.<\/p>\n

His arm in a cast,\u00a0Tsarnaev\u00a0made his first courtroom appearance since his capture at the end of a chaotic week in April.<\/p>\n

Wearing a bright orange overall he walked calmly into court 10 at the Federal Court in Boston.<\/p>\n

He fidgeted in his seat and was then told to stand as the different charges were read to him.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old smiled crookedly – he appeared to have a jaw injury – at his sisters.<\/p>\n

Tsarnaev\u00a0leaned over a microphone and said, “Not guilty” over and over in a Russian accent, before being led out of the courtroom.<\/p>\n

He made a kissing motion toward his family as he left.<\/p>\n

The proceedings lasted just seven minutes and took place in a courtroom packed with victims of the bombing, their families, police officers, and members of the public and the media.<\/p>\n

The April 15 attack killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.<\/p>\n

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Authorities say Tsarnaev orchestrated the attack along with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died following a shoot-out with police three days after the bombing.<\/p>\n

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested on April 19 when he was found hiding in a boat in a suburban backyard.<\/p>\n

He was initially charged in hospital, where he was recovering from wounds suffered in another police gunfight.<\/p>\n

Reporters and spectators began lining up for seats in the Boston courtroom at 7.30am as a dozen Federal Protective Service officers and bomb-sniffing dogs surrounded the building.<\/p>\n

Four hours before the hearing, the defendant arrived at court in a four-vehicle convoy that included a van, a Humvee and a state police car.<\/p>\n

A group of about a dozen Tsarnaev supporters cheered as the cars arrived.<\/p>\n

The demonstrators yelled, “Justice for Jahar!” as Tsarnaev is known. One woman held a sign that said, “Free Jahar.”<\/p>\n

Lacey Buckley, 23, said she travelled from her home in Washington state to attend the arraignment.<\/p>\n

Ms Buckley said she has never met Tsarnaev but came because she believes he is innocent.<\/p>\n

“I just think so many of his rights were violated. They almost murdered an unarmed kid in a boat,” she said.<\/p>\n

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A group of friends who were on the high school wrestling team with Tsarnaev at Cambridge Rindge and Latin waited in line outside the courtroom for hours, hoping to get a seat.<\/p>\n

One ex-teammate, Shun Tsou, 20, of Cambridge, called Tsarnaev “a silent warrior type”.<\/p>\n

“There was nothing sketchy about him,” said Mr\u00a0Tsou, adding that he had not formed an opinion on Tsarnaev’s guilt or innocence.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Tsarnaev, a Muslim, wrote about his motivations for the bombing on the inside walls and beams of the boat where he was captured.<\/p>\n

He wrote the US government was “killing our innocent civilians”.<\/p>\n

“I don’t like killing innocent people,” he said, but also wrote: “I can’t stand to see such evil go unpunished. … We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all.”<\/p>\n

Three people – Martin Richard, aged eight; Krystle Marie Campbell, 29; and Lingzi Lu, 23 – were killed by the bombs, which were improvised from pressure cookers.<\/p>\n

Authorities say the Tsarnaevs also killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer Sean Collier days later while they were on the run.<\/p>\n

Numerous bombing victims had legs amputated after the two explosions, which detonated along the final stretch of the race a couple hours after the elite runners had finished.<\/p>\n

Following the appearance Tsarnaev was driven back to the secure hospital in Massachusetts where he is being held – his case will be heard in court again in September.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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