A courtroom sketch shows Marathon Sports manager Shane O'Hare testifying in the trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the federal courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts March 4, 2015. REUTERS/Jane Flavell Collins
BOSTON (Reuters) - A lawyer for the accused Boston Marathon bomber said at the start of his trial that their client bore responsibility for the attacks that killed three people and injured 264 with a blunt admission: "It was him."
But Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a secondary player in the April 15, 2013 bombings at the famous race and the fatal shooting days later of a police officer, defence attorney Judith Clarke said in her opening argument in U.S. District Court in Boston. She indicated that the 21-year-old's older brother, Tamerlan, was the prime mover.
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