Boston Marathon Bomber Attorney Asks To Unseal Interview

BOSTON, MA — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorneys are asking for recordings of police interviews with a man who was killed in a 2013 confrontation with authorities after he allegedly confessed to having a part in a triple homicide in Waltham.

Attorneys for Tsarnaev, who filed an appeal to his death sentence in 2016, asked to file their motion for “reports and recordings of interviews of Ibragim Todashev,” which are under seal, in a document submitted Tuesday with the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.

They did not spell out just why Tsarnaev’s appellate team wants to look at the interviews.

But Todashev allegedly confessed to the State Police and FBI agents in May 2013 that he and Tsarnaev’s older brother, Tamerlan (who he trained with and knew from boxing) had both been part of a triple homicide in Waltham in 2011. >>More Possible Suspects in the 2011 Waltham Triple Murder.

Right after that, Todashev was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida at his home. The law enforcement officials said Todashev charged at both the agent and a state trooper with a metal broomstick, but the ACLU has called for an investigation into what happened.

During the 2013 Boston Marathon brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set off bombs made from pressure cookers that killed three people and wounded hundreds more during the Boston Marathon in April 2013. In the days that followed they also killed an MIT police officer.

The older brother was killed in Watertown during a manhunt for him while he was on the run and Boston was under unofficial lockdown.

Dzhokhar,24, was convicted of 30 federal charges related to helping plan and execute the Boston Marathon bombings and sentenced to death in 2015. US District Judge George A. O'Toole Jr. also ordered Tsarnaev pay $101,124,027 to 49 families and the Massachusetts Victim Compensation Fund.

He offered an apology before his sentencing. He's being held at a federal prison in Colorado while he is waiting for his appeal.

Check out more:

• Boston Marathon Bomber's Attorney Hired By Michelle Carter (2017)
• Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Death Penalty Appeal (2016)
• Boston Marathon Bomber's Death Sentence Sparks Terrorist
• Jury Sentences Dzohkzar Tsarnaev to Death for Boston Marathon
• Florida Won't Investigate Death of Waltham Triple Murder (2013)
• Prosecutor's Report on Fatal Shooting of Ibragim Todashev (2014)
• ACLU Wants Independent Inquiry of Todashev Shooting

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Booking Photo of Todashev on May 4, 2013 Courtesy Orange County