Tsarvaev Trial Day 7: “It was a bad day for Dzhokhar,” says Boston College Law Professor Robert Bloom, as he analyzed the start of the third week of the trial of admitted Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Bloom, who has experience as both a defense attorney and prosecutor, says "the worst thing about the testimony was that both brothers, on the night of the Watertown shootout with police, were seen throwing explosive devices and that Dzhokhar could have avoided hitting his own brother with his car, but he didn’t. He says all the evidence hangs on the defendant and not his older brother, Tamerlan."
Bloom is referring to testimony surrounding the Watertown gun battle when police encountered the two brothers responsible for the bombing attack in April 2013. The older Tsarnaev brother was killed during the police chase, and the defendant was captured hiding inside the boat SlipAway II, owned by David Henneberry.
On the witness stand for the prosecution Monday, were Sgts. John MacLellan and Jeffrey Pugliese.
Bloom says Dzhokhar, for the first time in the courtroom, physically responded to testimony from officer Pugliese, who testified that he physically tried to pull Tamerlan off the road to safety, the night the two brothers were being chased and before the defendant drove over his older brother's body, dragging it until a car slammed into a police cruiser.
