Boston Bomber’s Lawyers Focus on Brother’s Obsession With Islam

The older brother of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev changed from a roisterous boxer known for flashy outfits into someone with a bushy beard and drab clothes and obsessed by militant Islam, following a trip to Russia in 2012, witnesses said on Tuesday.
The testimony before a federal jury in Boston comes as lawyers for Tsarnaev build their argument that the 21-year-old ethnic Chechen was a pawn in his now-dead brother’s scheme to bomb the race on April 15, 2013, and should be sentenced to life in prison, not death.
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