A new court
filing reveals for the first time how close accused Boston Marathon bomber
Dzokhar Tsarnaev came to dying from extensive gunshot wounds and his attempts
to resist an FBI interrogation while he was handcuffed to his hospital bed.
Clinging to
life from gunshot wounds to the head, face, throat, jaw, hand and legs
surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s condition
“suddenly declined” the moment he arrived at the hospital April 19, 2013,
according to court records filed by the defense Wednesday. All night and into
the next morning doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center intubated
Tsarnaev to keep him alive, performed emergency surgery and gave him narcotics
to dull the pain, the records say.
Twenty hours
later Tsarnaev was interrogated, a process that lasted over 36 hours despite
the fact that Tsarnaev “repeatedly requested a lawyer," "begged to
rest” and “quickly allayed concerns about any continuing threats to public
safety.”
Defense
attorneys said Tsarnaev’s constitutional rights were violated and his
statements should be suppressed. Prosecutors have not formally responded in
court but purportedly indicated to the defense they do not plan to use any of
the bedside statements at trial, which is scheduled to begin in November.
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