October 21, - In a court document, prosecutors confirm that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was accused of participating in a triple homicide outside Boston. January 30, - A notice is filed with a federal court after US Attorney General Eric Holder says that federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. May 30, - Authorities arrest a friend of the Tsarnaev brothers, Khairullozhon Matanov and charge him with one count of destroying, altering, and falsifying records, documents and tangible objects in a federal investigation, specifically information on his computer.
He is also charged with three counts of making materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements in a federal terrorism investigation. He later pleads guilty to misleading investigators. August 21, - Kadyrbayev pleads guilty to obstructing justice. As part of the plea agreement, a sentence of seven years will be recommended by the US attorney, and Kadyrbayev, a Kazakh national, has agreed to be deported after serving his sentence.
October 28, - Phillipos, a friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is convicted on two counts of lying to federal agents. January 5, - Tsarnaev's trial begins. March 3, - Jury selection is completed. March 4, - Opening statements begin in Tsarnaev's case.
Testimony lasts 15 days. Over the course of the trial, prosecutors call 92 witnesses; the defense calls four. April 8, - After deliberating 11 and a half hours, the jury returns a guilty verdict on all 30 charges. May 15, - Tsarnaev is sentenced to death. June 2, - Kadyrbayev, a friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev who pleaded guilty in August , is sentenced to 72 months in prison for obstructing justice.
June 5, - Tazhayakov is sentenced to three and a half years in prison for conspiring to obstruct justice and obstructing justice with intent to impede the investigation.
Phillipos is sentenced to three years in prison for making false statements to law enforcement in a terrorism investigation. June 24, - Tsarnaev is formally sentenced to death. Addressing the court, he apologizes and admits he is guilty. December 22, - Stephen Silva, the man who loaned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the gun that was later used to kill an MIT officer, is sentenced to time served and three years supervised probation.
May 19, - Tazhayakov is released from federal prison. February 26, - Phillipos is released from a residential re-entry program, bringing an end to his federal prison term.
August 29, - Kadyrbayev is released from federal prison and taken into ICE custody. He is deported October 23 and arrives in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on October December 27, - Attorneys for Tsarnaev appeal his death sentence, saying that Tsarnaev did not receive a fair trial.
They say it should have been held outside of the city where the crime was committed. July 31, - The appeals court vacates Tsarnaev's death sentence and rules he should be given a new penalty trial. The court also sets aside three of his 30 convictions but maintains he will remain in federal prison for the rest of his life. A man comforts a victim on the sidewalk at the scene near the finish line of the th Boston Marathon.
Bystanders help an injured woman at the scene of the first explosion on Boylston Street near the finish line of the th Boston Marathon. An emergency responder and volunteers, including Carlos Arredondo in the cowboy hat, push Jeff Bauman in a wheel chair after he was injured in an explosion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, April 15, in Boston.
A woman kneels and prays at the scene of the first explosion on Boylston Street near the finish line of the th Boston Marathon on April 15, This was the scene on Federal Street in the Financial District at around p. One of the blast sites on Boylston Street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon is investigated by two people in protective suits in the wake of two blasts in Boston on April 15, Two ethnic Chechen brothers carried out one of the most shocking attacks on U.
Tsarnaev, who is 28 now and was 19 at the time, and his older brother Tamerlan detonated two homemade pressure-cooker bombs at the marathon's finish line on April 15, After four days in hiding in the Boston area, the brothers tried to flee, killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police that ended when his younger brother ran him over with a stolen car. Jurors in found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 counts he faced and later determined he deserved execution for a bomb he planted that killed Lu and Richard. The Boston-based 1st U. Circuit Court of Appeals last year ruled that the trial judge "fell short" in screening jurors for potential bias following pervasive news coverage of the bombing and ordered a new death-penalty phase trial.
The 1st Circuit stressed that even if he is not executed Tsarnaev would remain in prison the rest of his life. He is incarcerated at the "Supermax" federal prison in Florence, Colorado. The Justice Department launched its appeal during Republican former President Donald Trump's administration and continued it after Democrat Joe Biden took office even though Biden opposes the federal government's use of the death penalty.
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