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         Boston Friend of Accused Marathon Bomber Found Guilty of Lying

   by Reuters

   A U.S. jury found a college friend of the accused Boston Marathon
   bomber guilty on Tuesday of lying to authorities in a terrorism
   investigation.
   Robel Phillipos, 21, was charged with lying about having visited
   suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the
   attack, which killed three people and injured more than 260.

   Phillipos and two friends removed a backpack containing empty fireworks
   shells from the suspected bomber's room.

   Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was on trial for two criminal
   counts of lying to investigators, one for saying he did not remember
   the visit, and one for denying it. He later signed a written confession
   admitting to it, following an FBI interrogation.



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