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In this courtroom sketch, defendant Azamat Tazhayakov, foreground center, a college friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is stands between his attorneys as the verdict is read in his federal trial in this Monday, July 21, 2014, file photo, in Boston. Tazhayakov, of Kazakhstan, was convicted of obstruction of justice and conspiracy, impeding the investigation into the bombing. Prosecutors said he agreed with a plan by another friend, Dias Kadyrbayev, to remove Tsarnaev's backpack containing altered fireworks from his dorm room a few days after the 2013 bombings. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins)

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s friends face sentencing delay

Associated Press

This undated photo added on April 18, 2013, to the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows, from left, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, from Kazakhstan, with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square in New York. (Associated Press/VK) **FILE**

Friend of bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found guilty of impeding probe

Associated Press

This courtroom sketch shows defendants Azamat Tazhayakov, left, Dias Kadyrbayev, center, and Robel Phillipos, right, college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, during a hearing in federal court Tuesday, May 13, 2014, in Boston. Judge Douglas Woodlock ruled the three men will be tried separately, but their trials do not need to be moved out of Massachusetts. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov are Kazakhstan nationals charged with tampering with evidence for removing Tsarnaev's laptop and a backpack containing fireworks from his college dorm room shortly after last year's fatal bombing. Phillipos, of Cambridge, Mass., is charged with lying to investigators. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins)

Confessions of Tsarnaev’s pals at issue in hearing

By PAIGE SUTHERLAND - Associated Press

June trial set for Boston Marathon suspect’s pals

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

This undated photo found on the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows Kadyrbayev, left, with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, at an unknown location. Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Tsarnaev from Kazakhstan, were jailed by immigration authorities the day after his Tsarnaev's capture. They are not suspects, but are being held for violating their student visas by not regularly attending classes, Kadyrbayev’s lawyer, Robert Stahl said. They are being detained at a county jail in Boston. (AP Photo/VK)

Three charged with trying to thwart Boston bomb investigation, were pals of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times