Boston Marathon defense lawyers request evidence on triple killing

Boston Marathon defense lawyers request evidence on triple killing
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Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked a judge Wednesday to either get evidence from federal prosecutors of his older brother's alleged participation in a 2011 triple killing or postpone the trial, The Associated Press reports.

The lawyers say prosecutors haven't released any evidence of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's involvement in the murders since 2013 court papers. The older Tsarnaev was killed in a police shootout days after the 2013 bombing.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.