The first court case in the Boston Marathon bombings has a verdict: guilty. A friend of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty Monday of obstruction of justice and conspiring to obstruct justice after helping to remove a backpack, a jar of Vaseline, and a thumb drive from Tsarnaev’s dorm room after the explosions. Azamat Tazhayakov, a former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student, faces 25 years in prison and will be sentenced on Oct. 16.
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