Tsarnaev allegedly made statement ‘to his detriment’ in visit with sister

[alp227]

Source: Boston Globe

During a prison visit with his sister, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused Boston Marathon bomber, made a damaging statement that was overheard by an FBI agent, federal prosecutors said today in a court filing.

The filing said that Tsarnaev, despite the presence of the agent, who was legally allowed in the room, “was unable to temper his remarks and made a statement to his detriment which was overheard by the agent.”

The filing did not say what the statement was.

The filing was made as part of an ongoing battle between the prosecution and defense over special administrative measures, special prison restrictions, that have been imposed on Tsarnaev.

Read more: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/02/28/feds-alleged-marathon-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-allegedly-made-ill-advised-statement-during-visit-with-sister/j6lcoJD2HJLHRModBJz29K/story.html

[Blue_Tires]

1. I know it's only tangentially related, but

was there ever a full explanation for the unarmed witness who inexplicably decided to attack two FBI agents questioning him in his home (without a lawyer, no less)?

[csziggy]

6. There was a thread the other day here about that man

Here is a link to the article - I couldn't find the DU thread:
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2014/02/25/waltham-murders-boston-marathon/print/

Apparently Ibragim Todashev, the dead man, was a pretty iffy character and may have well been involved in three murders with the dead Boston bomber a year before the bombing. But since the police in the town where the murders took place dropped the ball on their investigation and the FBI did some pretty strange things in their pursuit of this man, we will never know the truth.

The article is very interesting and brings up many more questions than have been answered in this specific line of inquiry.

[Cha]

22. Thanks for the link, csziggy nt

[LeftyMom]

7. Not really.

Rachel Maddow did a pretty good segment on it earlier this week: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/fbi-credibility-questioned-in-fishy-shooting-170716739971

[merrily]

9. Are they still claiming that he attacked them?

[msanthrope]

13. A triple-murderer 'inexplicably' attacked someone under questioning? nt

[Blue_Tires]

14. I'm talking about this guy:

http://www.wbur.org/2014/01/14/todashev-fatal-fbi-shooting

I wasn't aware he was confirmed as a the one responsible for a triple homicide...Last I heard he was just possibly connected, or knew something about it...

Me, personally; if I'm the trigger man for an unsolved triple homicide, the *last* thing I want to do is have multiple conversations with the FBI without an attorney present...

[msanthrope]

15. Yep....Todashev put himself and the elder brother at the scene. Younger

brother is trying to get this information to the main part of his trial....

http://www.wbur.org/2013/10/23/tamerlan-waltham-slaying-connection

Todashev is connected to the victims, and placed himself at the scene of an extremely brutal slaying that could not have been to work of 1 man. The investigation reports two men going into the apartment.

I'm a criminal defense attorney.... People talk to the police all the time. Why? because some criminals think they're smart enough to talk their way out of charges. A good investigator is going to give you the opportunity to 'clear' yourself. you'd be surprised how many people take them up on that chance.

[freshwest]

17. Looks like the investigator gave him enough rope to hang himself with it. The murder was especially

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violent and brutal, most likely planned in advance with the victims unaware of the danger.

IIRC, there wasn't a forced entry, they let them in. Which I think is a particularly grievous thing to do, talk someone into letting you inside and killing them.

JMHO.

[msanthrope]

18. Arrested for road rage twice, awaiting trial on one of those charges, and

about to be arrested for a triple homicide?

And people are really surprised that he got upset?

That triple murder was a pre-planned hate crime.

[freshwest]

19. I still don't get these people doing that - a hate crime - maybe I don't wanna get it, you know? nt

[msanthrope]

20. All three victims were Jewish, and the motive seems to have been based partially

on the killers disapproval of the money they were making on pot sales....it was an affront to their god, or something.

[freshwest]

21. Sick, sick, sick! Thanks for the extra details. n/t

[1000words]

2. WTF is the point of reporting this?

Something, that can't be printed, was overheard by an agent of a government that has a vested interest in finding a terrorist guilty.

[jakeXT]

10. It's like the video, that nobody has seen

The video clearly puts 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the scene of the attack, Patrick said on NBC.

“It does seem to be pretty clear that this suspect took the backpack off, put it down, did not react when the first explosion went off and then moved away from the backpack in time for the second explosion,” Patrick said. “It’s pretty clear about his involvement and pretty chilling, frankly.”

He added, however, that he hasn’t viewed all the tapes but had been briefed by law enforcement about them.

http://newsone.com/2400986/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-captured-3/

[Joe Shlabotnik]

11. +1 n/t

[randome]

12. It's not a trial by a jury of 300 million.

So the press prints any and all tidbits they can find, hoping to catch some eyeballs.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]

[cosmicone]

3. He probably admitted being fully involved

and not a little patsy brother who was influenced by the big bully brother into doing something he wouldn't have done under normal circumstances.

[WilliamPitt]

4. Good.

[uppityperson]

5. +1000

[hrmjustin]

8. Agreed!

[hollowdweller]

16. This kid wasn't smoking enough weed

If he thought it was ok to blow up random civilians.

[Cha]

23. Thanks alp~