BOSTON — Wednesday, the court clerk's office began unsealing documents in the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Prosecutors and Tsarnaev's attorneys recently submitted a list of more than 600 court filings and exhibits that both sides agree can now be made public. Tuesday, U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. ordered the documents unsealed.
Tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death last year for his role in the 2013 bombing. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured when Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan placed two bombs near the finish line.
Prosecutors allege in newly released court documents that Tsarnaev showed "the opposite of remorse" when he was captured days after the 2013 attack.
Tsarnaev was convicted last year and sentenced to death for his role in an attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. At his sentencing hearing, he said he was sorry for the lives he took and the suffering he caused.
But in documents released Wednesday, prosecutors say Tsarnaev made remorseless statements to two FBI agents after he was critically wounded in a shootout with police.
Prosecutors argued that they should be allowed to use the statements to challenge the testimony of a nun and death penalty opponent who testified for Tsarnaev during the penalty phase of his trial.
DOCUMENTS UNSEALED SO FAR:
- Motion to suppress fruits of searches at Norfolk Street and University of Massachusetts (Filed 05/07/14)
- Motion to suppress statements (Filed 05/07/14)
- Motion to suppress fruits of searches: Electronically stored information, including email communications and data contained in the Sony Vaio laptop computer (Filed 05/12/14)
- Letter from Carmen M. Ortiz, U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts (Written July 22, 2014)
- Government's opposition to defendant's renewed motion for hearing to address "leaks" (Filed 08/08/14)
- Motion to compel the government to comply with its expert disclosure obligations, and to suspend defendant's expert disclosure deadline (Filed 07/25/14)
- Government's opposition to defendant's motion to compel compliance and suspend defendant's expert disclosure deadline (Filed 08/08/14)
- United States of America v. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Order: August 18, 2014)
- Motion to compel discovery (Filed: 10/10/14)
- Sealed motion to seal motion to admit testimony by Sister Helean Prejean (May 8, 2015)
- Government's reply to defendant's opposition to its motion in limine to exclude the testimony of Sister Helen Prejean (May 9, 2015)
- Government's opposition to defendant's motion to compel compliance and suspend defendant's expert disclosure deadline
- State Police Crime Processing – Mercedes ML350 (April 28,2013)
- State Police Crime Scene evidence examination / latent print development (April 20, 2013)
- State Police firearms identification report (April 24, 2013)
- State Police bullet analysis
- State Police gunshot primer residue analysis (Oct. 30, 2013)
- FBI Laboratory report of items recovered at Boylston Street Scene 1 and Cambridge Apartment (April 21, 2014)
- State Police Firearms identification report (Aug. 22,2013)
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