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| Boston bomb accused Dzhokhar Tsarnaev denies charges | Boston bomb accused Dzhokhar Tsarnaev denies charges |
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| Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to all charges in his first appearance in a courtroom filled with blast victims. | |
| Mr Tsarnaev, 19, faces 30 counts of using a weapon of mass destruction in the two 15 April blasts that killed three, including an eight-year-old boy. | Mr Tsarnaev, 19, faces 30 counts of using a weapon of mass destruction in the two 15 April blasts that killed three, including an eight-year-old boy. |
| He appeared in shackles and an orange prison suit, and replied "not guilty" as the charges were read to the court. | He appeared in shackles and an orange prison suit, and replied "not guilty" as the charges were read to the court. |
| Prosecutors could press for the death penalty for seventeen counts. | |
| The suspect has also been charged over the death of a fourth person, a university police officer, who was allegedly shot dead by Mr Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan in the days after the attack. | |
| He is also charged in a carjacking incident and with downloading internet material from Islamist radicals sometime before the blasts. | |
| Relatives in court | |
| People appeared outside the federal courthouse in Boston as early as 07:30 EST (12:30 BST) to claim a seat inside the court and two overflow rooms for a hearing that lasted just seven minutes. | |
| Two of the suspect's sisters watched the proceedings. One sobbed during the hearing while the other held a baby. | |
| Before he was led out of the courtroom, the suspect seemed to smile and to gesture a kiss to his family members in the room. | |
| Mr Tsarnaev was not in court last month during an indictment hearing, when a federal grand jury agreed that he should be tried on 30 charges. | |
| His first court appearance took place at his hospital bedside, where he was recovering from injuries suffered in a shootout with police during the manhunt. He was later transferred to a prison hospital near Boston. | |
| Mr Tsarnaev's older brother Tamerlan, 26, was killed days after the attack during a massive police operation. He is also suspected of carrying out the attacks. | |
| The brothers are from a family of ethnic Chechen Muslims from Russia and had been living in the US for about a decade. | |
| More than 260 people were injured when two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel were detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. | |
| The bombing was the worst mass-casualty attack on US soil since 11 September 2001. |