Court sketches from Boston bomber case, high-profile trials in 2013
On Wednesday, accused Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made his first court appearance, pleading not guilty to bombing charges. A look at sketches from this case and several other high-profile court cases in 2013.
- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears in court in Boston, Massachusetts in this July 10, 2013 court sketch. Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made his first court appearance after being charged with killing three marathon spectators on April 15, and later shooting dead a university police officer. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
- Judge Marianne Bowler presides as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears in court in Boston, Massachusetts in this July 10, 2013 court sketch. Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made his first court appearance after being charged with killing three marathon spectators on April 15, and later shooting dead a university police officer. (Jane Rosenberg /Reuters)
- Defense attorneys Miriam Conrad (L) and Judy Clarke (centre) flank Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as Judge Marianne Bowler (R) looks on in court in Boston, Massachusetts in this July 10, 2013 court sketch. Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made his first court appearance after being charged with killing three marathon spectators on April 15, and later shooting dead a university police officer. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
- Judge Marianne Bowler (R) looks on along with Courtroom Deputy Brendan Garvin as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appears in court in Boston, Massachusetts in this July 10, 2013 court sketch. Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made his first court appearance after being charged with killing three marathon spectators on April 15, and later shooting dead a university police officer. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
- Bomb plot suspects John Nuttall (L) and Amanda Korody are shown in a courtroom sketch, during their appearance in provincial court in Surrey, British Columbia July 9, 2013. Nuttall and Korody are charged with attempting to set off three home-made pressure cooker bombs in a crowd celebrating the July 1 Canada Day holiday in Victoria, the capital of the Pacific province of British Columbia.(Felicity Don/Reuters)
- U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan (C), accused of killing 13 soldiers in a 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, is seen in a courtroom sketch as he sits with his legal team in front of military judge Colonel Tara Osborn at his court martial at Fort Hood, Texas July 9, 2013. Hasan, 42, an American-born Muslim who faces the death penalty if convicted by a military panel. (Brigitte Woosley/Reuters)
- A courtroom sketch of military judge Colonel Tara Osborn presiding at the court martial of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood, Texas July 9, 2013. Hasan, 42, an American-born Muslim, is accused of killing 13 soldiers in a 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage. (Brigitte Woosley/Reuters)
- U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing 13 soldiers in a 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage, is seen in a courtroom sketch at his court martial at Fort Hood, Texas July 9, 2013. Hasan, 42, an American-born Muslim who faces the death penalty if convicted by a military panel. (Brigitte Woosley/Reuters)
- The alleged mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks on the United States, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, is seen during a break in court procedure in this Pentagon-approved sketch at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba June 17, 2013. Dozens of issues are on the docket for a week-long pretrial hearing in the death penalty case against the alleged mastermind of the hijacked plane attacks on the United States, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four co-defendants accused of funding and training the hijackers. (Janet Hamlin/Reuters)
- This court sketch made on May 13, 2013 at the Paris courthouse shows notorious Venezuelan militant Carlos the Jackal at the opening of his appeal trial for a series of deadly bombings in France 30 years ago. The trial kicked off with Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, appearing without his defense lawyers and saying he had asked them not to attend. The 63-year-old, who has been imprisoned in France since his capture in Sudan in 1994, was found guilty in 2011 of masterminding the 1982 and 1983 attacks on two French passenger trains, a train station in Marseille and a Libyan magazine office in Paris. (Benoit Peyrucq/AFP/Getty Images)
- Accused movie theater gunman, James Holmes (2nd from R) is shown in this courtroom artist sketch listening to his legal team during hearing in Centennial, Colorado May 13, 2013. A Colorado judge found “good cause” to allow Holmes, who could face the death penalty if convicted of murdering 12 moviegoers last year, to change his plea to not guilty by reason of insanity. (Bill Robles/Reuters)
- An artist sketch shows Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a militant who appeared in videos as a spokesman for al Qaeda after the September 11, 2001 attacks, appearing at the U.S. District Court in Manhattan March 8, 2013. Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda figures to be brought to the United States to face a civilian trial, pleaded not guilty on Friday to a charge of conspiracy to kill Americans. The U.S. District Court in Manhattan is only blocks from the site of the World Trade Center. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
- (L-R, wearing camouflage) Ramzi, Walid bin Attash and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, three of the alleged conspirators in the 9/11 attacks, attend court dressed in camouflage during hearings in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba January 28, 2013 in this Pentagon-approved court sketch. Defense lawyer Cheryl Bormann, in hijab, stands at the podium before presiding judge Army Colonel James Pohl. (Janet Hamlin/Reuters)
- Victim Family Members and Office of Military Commissions staff watch pretrial hearings for the alleged conspirators in the 9/11 attacks in this Pentagon-approved court sketch from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba January 28, 2013. (Back row) OMC Patricia Moss, OMC Domini McDonald. (Second row back to front): Debra Strickland, Phyllis Rodrigues, Joyce Woods, John Woods. (Front row back to front): Loreen Sellitto, Matt Sellitto, Anne Gabriel, and Christopher Gabriel. (Janet Hamlim/Reuters)
- (L-R) Ramzi, Walid bin Attash and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, three of the alleged conspirators in the 9/11 attacks, attend court dressed in camouflage during hearings in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba January 28, 2013 in this Pentagon-approved court sketch. Defense lawyer Cheryl Bormann, in hijab, stands at the podium before presiding judge Army Colonel James Pohl. (Janet Hamlin/Reuters)
- A courtroom artist’s sketch shows (L to R) Tahawwur Rana in a white beard, looking on with his lawyer Patrick Blegen, prosecutor Daniel Collins and Judge Harry Leinenweber during a sentencing hearing in federal court in Chicago, Illinois January 17, 2013. Rana, a Canadian national found guilty in 2011 of participating in a terror conspiracy against a Danish newspaper and providing material to support a terrorist organization. (Tom Gianni/Reuters)
- A courtroom artist’s sketch shows Tahawwur Rana (L) looking on with his lawyer Patrick Blegen during a sentencing hearing in federal court in Chicago, Illinois January 17, 2013. Rana, a Canadian national found guilty in 2011 of participating in a terror conspiracy against a Danish newspaper and providing material to support a terrorist organization. (Tom Gianni/Reuters)
- Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales (3rd L), his attorney John Henry Browne (2nd L), Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance (3rd R) and prosecutor Major Rob Stelle (2nd R) are seen in a courtroom sketch as he is arraigned on 16 counts of premeditated murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven of assault at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington January 17, 2013. Bales, a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, is accused of gunning down 16 villagers – mostly women and children – over a five-hour period in March 11, 2012 in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. Bales deferred making a plea before a U.S. military court to charges of premeditated murder, for which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. (Peter Millett/Reuters)
- Attorney Emma Scanlan (L) representing Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales and Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance (r) are seen in a courtroom sketch as Bales is arraigned on 16 counts of premeditated murder, six counts of attempted murder and seven of assault at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington January 17, 2013. Bales, a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, is accused of gunning down 16 villagers – mostly women and children – over a five-hour period in March 11, 2012 in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. Bales deferred making a plea before a U.S. military court to charges of premeditated murder, for which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. (Peter Millett/Reuters)
- Securities research analyst John Kinnucan (C) is pictured in a courtroom sketch as he is sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court for insider-trading in New York January 15, 2013. Kinnucan, 55, who had run Broadband Research LLC in Portland, Oregon, was sentenced to more than four years in prison after admitting he supplied hedge funds with illegal tips. He was arrested last February on insider-trading charges, and later pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and two counts of securities fraud. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
- Securities research analyst John Kinnucan (C) is pictured in a courtroom sketch as he is sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court for insider-trading in New York January 15, 2013. Kinnucan, 55, who had run Broadband Research LLC in Portland, Oregon, was sentenced to more than four years in prison after admitting he supplied hedge funds with illegal tips. He was arrested last February on insider-trading charges, and later pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and two counts of securities fraud. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
- Abid Naseer (L) is seen in a courtroom sketch with his attorney Steven Brounstein (C) and Judge Raymond Dearie as he pleads not guilty to terrorism charges in his first U.S. court appearance in New York January 7, 2013. Naseer was extradited on Thursday from Britain to Brooklyn, New York and is facing up to life in prison on charges including providing material support to al Qaeda and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in connection with an alleged plot to bomb a city center in Manchester, England. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
- James Holmes (L) is led into court for an appearance in Centennial, Colorado in a courtroom sketch from January 7, 2013. Defense lawyers declined to present any evidence or call any witnesses on Wednesday in the preliminary hearing for Holmes, who is charged with shooting 12 people to death and wounding 58 others in a Colorado movie theater July 20, 2012. (Bill Robles/Reuters)
- Aurora Police Detective Matthew Ingui is pictured in a courtroom sketch pointing out victims’ locations in the movie theater while testifying in Centennial, Colorado January 7, 2013 during a court appearance of James Holmes, the accused shooter in the July 20, 2012 theater shootings. Attorneys are meeting Monday for a preliminary hearing at which prosecutors will lay out their evidence so that Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester may decide if there is a basis for trying Holmes. (Bill Robles/Reuters)
- Aurora Police Detective Matthew Ingui is pictured in a courtroom sketch testifying in Centennial, Colorado January 7, 2013 at a court appearance of James Holmes, the accused shooter in the July 20, 2012 theater shootings. Attorneys are meeting Monday for a preliminary hearing at which prosecutors will lay out their evidence so that Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester may decide if there is a basis for trying Holmes. (Bill Robles/Reuters)
- A courtroom sketch shows Aurora Police officer Justin Grizzle giving testimony at a preliminary hearing in the case against James Holmes, the accused suspect in the July 20, 2012 theater shootings in Centennial, Colorado January 7, 2013. Holmes, a former graduate student charged with shooting a dozen people to death last July at a screening of a “Batman” film in Colorado returned to court on Monday as prosecutors set out to convince a judge they have enough evidence to put him on trial. (Bill Robles/Reuters)
- A courtroom sketch shows former SAC Capital employee Mathew Martoma (C) during his arraignment hearing at Manhattan Federal Court in New York January 3, 2013. Martoma, a former portfolio manager at hedge fund SAC Capital Management, pleaded not guilty to fraud charges stemming from a $276 million insider-trading case brought by federal prosecutors. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleads not guilty to Boston bombing charges
By Richard A. Serrano
5:40 p.m. EDT, July 10, 2013
WASHINGTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev made his first public court appearance Wednesday, leaning over a microphone and repeating again and again in a Russian accent “not guilty” to potential capital murder charges in a federal courtroom packed with victims and their families getting their first look at the man who is suspected of killing three and injuring 260 in the Boston Marathon bombing.
His left arm in a cast, his jaw apparently bruised, his eye swollen, he flashed a wry smile at his two sisters in Muslim dress, then blew them a kiss as he was led away after the arraignment that lasted no more than seven minutes, as described by news sources. One of the sisters was holding a baby. The other was crying.
Tsarnaev faces 30 federal charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction. The 19-year-old was driven to and from the courthouse in a white van escorted by a three-vehicle motorcade with heavily armed officers. Outside, a small group of Tsarnaev supporters chanted “Justice for Dzhokhar” and jockeyed on the sidewalk with victims and others still visibly angry over the April 15 bombing.
Rod Zeger
Jul 11, 2013 @ 13:07:37
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