Boston Marathon suspect may pin blame on brother

FILE - This file photo released Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Lawyers for Tsarnaev will ask a judge to address the death penalty protocol during a status conference in federal court Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, in Boston. Tsarnaev is accused in two bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260 others near the finish line of the April 15 marathon. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation, File)

FILE - This file photo released Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. Lawyers for Tsarnaev will ask a judge to address the death penalty protocol during a status conference in federal court Monday, Sept. 23, 2013, in Boston. Tsarnaev is accused in two bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260 others near the finish line of the April 15 marathon. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation, File)

This May 4, 2013 police mugshot provided by the Orange County Corrections Department in Orlando, Fla., shows Ibragim Todashev after his arrest for aggravated battery in Orlando. Todashev, who was being questioned in Orlando by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot Wednesday, May 22, 2013 when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials said. According to a filing made Monday, Oct. 23, 2013, Ibragim Todashev told investigators that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect, participated in a triple killing in Waltham, Mass. on Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Orange County Corrections Department)

BOSTON (AP) — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's lawyers may try to save him from the death penalty in the Boston Marathon bombing by arguing he fell under the murderous influence of his older brother, legal experts say.

The outlines of a possible defense came into focus this week when it was learned that Tsarnaev's attorneys are trying to get access to investigative records implicating the now-dead brother in a grisly triple slaying committed in 2011.

In court papers Monday, federal prosecutors acknowledged publicly for the first time that a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev told investigators that Tamerlan participated in the unsolved killings of three men who were found in a Waltham apartment with their throats slit, marijuana sprinkled over their bodies.

The younger Tsarnaev's lawyers argued in court papers that any evidence of Tamerlan's involvement is "mitigating information" that is critical as they prepare Dzhokhar's defense. They asked a judge to force prosecutors to turn over the records.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, faces 30 federal charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction, in the twin bombings April 15 that killed three people and injured more than 260. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in a gunbattle with police days later.

The government is still deciding whether to pursue the death penalty for the attack, which investigators say was retaliation for the U.S. wars in Muslim lands.

Miriam Conrad, Tsarnaev's public defender, had no comment.

Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said the defense may be trying to show that the older brother was the guiding force.

"If I was a defense attorney and was seeking perhaps to draw attention to the influence the older brother had in planning the bombing, I would use his involvement in other crimes to show that he was likely the main perpetrator in the Boston bombing," Dieter said.

"I would take the position that my client, the younger brother, was strongly influenced by his older brother, and even if he is culpable, the death penalty is too extreme in this case."

Similarly, Aitan D. Goelman, who was part of the legal team that prosecuted Oklahoma City bombing figures Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, said the defense may be looking to minimize the younger brother's role in the bombing.

"I think the mostly likely reason is that if they are arguing some kind of mitigation theory that the older brother was a monster and the younger brother was under his sway or intimidated or dominated by him," he said.

Investigators have given no motive for the 2011 slayings. One victim was a boxer and friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's.

Federal prosecutors said in court papers that Ibragim Todashev, another friend of Tamerlan's, told authorities that Tamerlan took part in the killings. Todashev was shot to death in Florida in May by authorities while being questioned.

Prosecutors argued that turning over the records would damage the investigation into the killings.

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Smith reported from Providence, R.I. Associated Press writer Pete Yost in Washington contributed to this report.

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Cumberbatch's 'Sherlock' back with 'Downton'

FILE - In this undated file publicity image released by PBS, Benedict Cumberbatch portrays Sherlock Holmes in "Sherlock," a fast-paced, witty take on the legendary Sherlock Holmes crime novels, set in present day London. (AP Photo/PBS, File)

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FILE - This undated file publicity image provided by PBS shows Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham, left, and Jim Carter as Mr. Carson from the popular series "Downton Abbey." The fourth season of "Downton Abbey" will debut Sunday, Jan 5, 2014. (AP Photo/PBS, Josh Barratt)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Sherlock" starring Benedict Cumberbatch will return to public TV in January, keeping company on Sunday nights with the "Downton Abbey" crowd.

Season three of the modern Sherlock Holmes mystery series will began Jan. 19, PBS said Wednesday. It was previously announced that the fourth season of "Downton" will begin Jan 5.

The scheduling reflects PBS' new strategy of pairing dramas on Sunday, part of a broader effort to build "flow within a given night in our schedule," said Beth Hoppe, PBS' chief programming executive.

Prime-time viewership on Sunday, home to primarily British dramas, grew 26 percent last season with the new approach, Hoppe said, and "Sherlock" and "Downton Abbey" were seen as good partners.

Overall, PBS' prime-time ratings were up 7 percent last season compared to the year before, Hoppe said.

"Downton Abbey," the hit drama about the lives and loves of landed gentry and their servants, will be preceded by a Dec. 1 special, "Return to Downton Abbey." Hosted by Susan Sarandon, it will offer a look at past seasons and a peek at the one ahead.

As in the past, the drama's new season already is in progress on Britain's ITV. PBS has resisted timing the U.S. to the U.K. airings, saying the January debut works better for its schedule — a move that's allowed spoilers to cross the Atlantic.

But PBS relented with BBC's "Sherlock," which is scheduled closer to its yet-to-be announced British airing, Hoppe said.

Other returning U.K. dramas include "Call the Midwife" and "Mr. Selfridge" starring Jeremy Piven, both debuting Sunday, March 30, and "The Bletchley Circle" on April 13.

The busy Benedict Cumberbatch, whose current movies include "The Fifth Estate" and "12 Years a Slave," is part of another PBS program, "Hawking," a Jan. 29 documentary about British physicist Stephen Hawking as told by him. Cumberbatch, who played Hawking in a 2004 TV movie, is a friend of the scientist and appears in the film, Hoppe said.

A lineup of science and nature programming for April includes a three-part special with the working title "Inside Animal Minds," debuting April 9 on "Nova."

More midseason programs scheduled to air on public TV stations:

— "Salinger" (Jan. 21), an "American Masters" documentary about the late "The Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger that includes interviews with his friends and colleagues.

— "Barrymore" (Jan. 31), a "Great Performances" presentation of Christopher Plummer's stage performance as John Barrymore.

— "The Amish: Shunned" (Feb. 4), an "American Experience" documentary that follows seven former members of the Amish community as they adjust to a new life.

— "Story of the Jews" (March 25), a five-part series with historian and author Simon Schama examining the Jewish experience from ancient times to now.

— "Muscle Shoals" (April 21), an "Independent Lens" look at the fertile musical Alabama breeding ground, with the perspectives from Mick Jagger, Etta James, Clarence Carter and others.

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A Toddler Remains HIV-Free, Raising Hope For Babies Worldwide

HIV-positive babies rest in an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. Treatment right after birth may make it possible for HIV-positive newborns to fight off the virus.

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HIV-positive babies rest in an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. Treatment right after birth may make it possible for HIV-positive newborns to fight off the virus.

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A 3-year-old girl born in Mississippi with HIV acquired from her mother during pregnancy remains free of detectable virus at least 18 months after she stopped taking antiviral pills.

New results on this child, published online by the New England Journal of Medicine, appear to green-light a study in the advanced planning stages in which researchers around the world will try to replicate her successful treatment in other infected newborns.

And it means that the Mississippi girl still can be considered possibly or even probably cured of HIV infection — only the second person in the world with that lucky distinction. The first is Timothy Ray Brown, a 47-year-old American man apparently cured by a bone marrow transplant he received in Berlin a half-dozen years ago.

This new report addresses many of the questions raised earlier this year when disclosure of the Mississippi child's case was called a possible game-changer in the long search for an HIV cure.

"There was some very healthy skepticism," Dr. Katherine Luzuriaga, a professor at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester, tells Shots. She's part of the team that has been exhaustively testing the toddler's blood and considering every possible explanation for her apparently HIV-free state.

Luzuriaga is confident the latest tests prove that the child was truly infected with HIV at the time of her birth — not merely carrying remnants of free-floating virus or infected blood cells transferred before birth from her mother, as some skeptics wondered.

The UMass researcher says there's no way the child's mother could have contributed enough of her own blood plasma to the newborn to account for the high levels of HIV detected in the child's blood shortly after birth.

Similarly, Luzuriaga says, new calculations show that the mother "would have had to transfer a huge number of [HIV-infected] white blood cells to the baby in order for us to get the [viral] signal that we got early on."

Clinching the question as far as the researchers are concerned is the infant's response to anti-HIV drugs that she began receiving shortly after birth. The remarkable earliness of her treatment is a crucial feature that makes this child different from almost any other.

"There's a very characteristic clearance curve of viruses once we start babies on treatment," Luzuriaga says. "The decay of viruses we see in this baby is exactly what we saw in early treatment trials from 20 years ago when we initiated anti-retroviral therapy and shut off viral replication. That's a very different decay curve than you would expect if it were just free virus transferred to the baby."

It might be helpful to recap the unusual, if not unique, features of the Mississippi case.

Her mother did not receive prenatal care, so she was not identified as HIV-infected before delivery. If she had been, she would have received drugs that are highly effective in preventing mother-to-child transmission of the virus.

While the mother was in labor, she got HIV testing, as is routine for women without prenatal care. When that came up positive, Dr. Hannah Gay, a pediatrician at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, was ready to test the newborn for infection and start anti-retroviral medicines within 30 hours of birth.

The treatment quickly cleared the virus from the baby's blood. Normally such children would stay on antiviral drugs for a lifetime. But in this case the mother – whose life circumstances were reportedly chaotic – stopped giving the child the medication between 15 and 18 months after birth.

Gay and her colleagues caught up to the child when she was 23 months old and were astonished to discover she was apparently still virus-free despite being off treatment. Five rounds of state-of-the-art testing — at UMass, Johns Hopkins, federal research labs and the University of California San Diego — failed to reveal any trace of the virus in her blood.

That led to last spring's report and widely reported hope that the child had been cured of HIV.

But Dr. Scott Hammer, an HIV researcher at Columbia University in New York, is not quite convinced. "Is the child cured of HIV infection? The best answer at this moment is a definitive 'maybe,' " Hammer writes in a New England Journal editorial that accompanied the report.

The reason is that a couple of tests done when the child was about 2 years old found indications that her system may contain pieces of RNA or DNA from HIV. This hints that some of the nucleic acid building blocks of the virus are hanging around within her blood cells.

There's no evidence these "proviral" remnants are capable of assembling themselves into whole viruses that can make copies of themselves. But researchers are concerned about that possibility and how it might be headed off.

"The question is whether those viral nucleic acids have the ability at some point to replicate and allow a rebound of the virus," Luzuriaga acknowledges. "That's why it's important to continue to test the baby over time." She says that means years.

But for now, the signs from the Mississippi child's case are encouraging enough to have generated an ambitious global human experiment that Luzuriaga says is in final planning stages.

Women who present in labor without having had prenatal care will be tested for HIV and, if positive, their infants will be intensively treated within a couple of days of birth, as the Mississippi child was. Then they'll be followed with the most sensitive tests to determine if the virus has been eradicated.

If certain criteria are met, researchers plan to decide whether it would be safe to discontinue HIV treatment deliberately and follow the children closely to see if the virus returns. (If it did, treatment would be restarted.)

If the experiment succeeds, it would be a huge advance in the prevention of childhood HIV and AIDS in many parts of the world. More than 9 out of 10 of the world's 3.4 million HIV-infected children live in sub-Saharan Africa, where many women deliver without having had prenatal care or HIV treatment. Around 900 children are newly infected every day.

Meanwhile, researchers pursuing an HIV cure will convene next month in San Francisco to consider various strategies — for adults as well as children. One other recent glimmer of hope was provided this summer by Boston researchers who reported that two HIV-infected men with lymphoma remain virus-free without treatment for several months after stopping antiviral treatment.

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Windows 8.1: The key security improvements

It's no secret that Windows XP is nearly six months away from its formal end-of-life support from Microsoft. Although many IT organizations have begun the migration to Windows 7 and some are testing Windows 8, a very large percentage of companies have made little effort to move from XP.

I believe users will prefer Window 7 because it's more familiar and has fewer big changes to stress about compared to Windows 8 or its newly released update, Windows 8.1. Plus, few PCs have touch capability, which is important because using Windows 8 on nontouch PCs is awkward. But there's an important reason to consider moving to Windows 8.1 despite the greater comfort of using Windows 7: Windows 8.1's better security.

[ Woody Leonhard says Windows 8.1 is a new version but the same mess. | Galen Gruman compares Windows 8.1 to OS X Mavericks. | Roger Grimes explains how Windows 8.1 stops pass-the-hash attacks. | Stay abreast of key Microsoft technologies in our Technology: Microsoft newsletter. ]

According to Dustin Ingalls, group program manager at Microsoft for Windows security and identity, one of the major problems enterprises face today is the hit-or-miss security functionality seen in users' PCs. For example, many PCs don't have a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, which is required to encrypt a Windows 8 PC's contents via Microsoft's BitLocker encryption technology. A TPM is also required to support InstantGo (previously called Connected Standby), which keeps Metro data, apps, and tiles updated with current information through a network connection that allows automatic syncing. Microsoft is pushing for TPM 2.0 to be required on all devices by January 2015, but there's no such requirement for today's devices.

All editions of Windows 8.1 (including the RT version) now support BitLocker encryption using both TPMs and the hardware-level UEFI protection approach. The trick is to make sure your PCs are InstantGo-certified so that you can take advantage of the encryption. Microsoft is also working on biometrics for both touch and swipe readers. "The goal is to move toward biometrics for everything from the Windows Store app to logging into secure sites, as well as your OS itself," Ingalls says.

Multifactor authentication is also enhanced in Windows 8.1 with virtual smart cards (VSCs), which uses the TPM to provides two-factor authentication, just like a physical smart card does. One is factor is the password or PIN, the other is VSC, with the private key stored on the system's hard drive.

Windows Defender has been enhanced with network behavior monitoring to help stop the execution of malware. Sometimes malware is known, other times it isn't, so Defender now looks at "bad behaviors in memory, the registry, or the file system, even before signatures have been created," Ingalls says. In addition, Internet Explorer 11 scans binary extensions (ActiveX, for example) in use before potentially harmful code runs. In contrast, pre-Windows 8.1 systems may allow malicious sites to exploit vulnerabilities in binary extensions like ActiveX controls. Additionally, IE's Enhanced Protection Mode is now enabled by default in the Windows Desktop version of IE. (It was autoenabled in the Metro edition in Windows 8.0, as it still is in Windows 8.1.)

Windows 8.1 introduces Remote Data Removal, which allows organizations to remove company data (email, attachments, and orporate data that came from Work Folders) without completely wiping the personal user's data in the process. Note that this capability requires Windows Server 2012 R2 to support Work Place Join and Work Folders.

Security is always going to be a concern for both the home and corporate user, even more so when you consider many users work from home PCs and other personal devices. As an IT admin looking to ensure the greatest level of security, you should give serious consideration to adopting Windows 8.1 instead of Windows 7.

This story, "Windows 8.1: The key security improvements," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of J. Peter Bruzzese's Enterprise Windows blog and follow the latest developments in Windows at InfoWorld.com. For the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.

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Deal of the Day: ZENS Wireless Single Charger

The Oct. 23 Deal of the Day is the ZENS Wireless Single Charger. Designed to work with Qi compatible devices such as the Nexus 7 (2013), Droid DNA, Nexus 4, Verizon G2, Droid MINI and Droid MAXX, this pad will automatically detect when your device has been placed (backside down) and will begin charging. Once fully charged the pad shuts off, preventing over charging. Comes in both black and white.

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F1 set for Vettel coronation – and last Indian race? | 2013 Indian Grand Prix preview

It’s only the third running of the Indian Grand Prix yet already fears abound F1 will not be returning to the Buddh International Circuit in the near future.

Formula One was warmly received at the circuit in 2011 and there remains an obvious appeal to having an event in the world’s largest democracy and a major growing economy.

But the race is not on the 2014 F1 calendar^[1] and although the organisers intend it to return the following year there are doubts over whether that will happen. In the run-up to this weekend’s race the regional government has raised the possibility of withdrawing a key tax exemption from the race.

Some drivers are already facing up to the possibility that this will be their last appearance at the track. “It seems next weekend may be my first and last opportunity to drive the Buddh International Circuit,” said Jules Bianchi^[2], “but I am very much looking forward to doing so because it is really a very special track”.

The circuit’s up-tempo middle sector, which includes the sweeping turns ten and eleven, is the clear highlight of a track which is otherwise very much in the mould of modern circuits.

The first two races Indian Grands Prix were tame affairs (garnering unimpressive average ratings of 5.3 out of ten from F1 Fanatic readers^[3]) but Pirelli has admitted the tyre choice for the first two races were “conservative”^[4].

A more challenging selection of medium and soft tyres has been nominated for this weekend’s race. That plus the lengthening of one of the DRS zones should alter the dynamic of the racing at the track.

Whether that will be sufficient to keep Sebastian Vettel^[5] from a sixth consecutive race victory remains to be seen.

Indian Grand Prix team-by-team preview

Red Bull

Vettel doesn’t need to win to assure himself of the drivers’ championship, nor to clinch the constructors’ title for Red Bull.

The chances are that both titles will be decided this weekend are high: Vettel and Red Bull will clinch the crowns if they leave India with the same points lead they have on arrival – indeed, they could afford to give a few points away to their rivals.

Their chances are bolstered by Vettel’s near-perfect track record in the previous two races here. Not only did he win both races, he led every lap of each of them and started each from pole position. Only in 2012 did he miss out on fastest lap.

Nonetheless it wouldn’t be a surprise to see Red Bull adopt a conservative approach this weekend, as they did when Vettel was on the cusp of his second world championship at Suzuka two years ago.

Ferrari

Ferrari are clinging on to second place in the constructors’ championship despite pressure from Mercedes (quick in qualifying) an Lotus (quick in the races).

But Fernando Alonso’s^[6] track record in India is very good, with podium finishes in both races, and they have more than a fighting chance of staying ahead.

McLaren

As McLaren draw closer to the end of a season in which they have still not scored a podium finish, team principal Martin Whitmarsh has credited drivers Jenson Button^[7] and Sergio Perez for their patience.

“I must also single-out praise for both drivers,” he said, ” it’s been a difficult season, but they have each remained calm, measured and dedicated – they have been a motivational force for the entire organisation, and I am very proud of the way they’ve responded.”

Lotus

Lotus must be relieved at the ever-improving form of Romain Grosjean^[8] since Kimi Raikkonen’s move to Ferrari was announced. Having been denied a likely podium finish by an engine failure in Singapore he was in the top three in the last two races and led convincingly for almost half the race in Japan.

“Our car is really performing well at the moment so I think we could be strong again,” he said of this weekend’s race.

“It’s fair to say we struggled there a little last year with finding grip and getting the right set up for the cars, so hopefully we can perform better this time. The tyre allocation was quite hard for the track in 2012, but this year it’s softer which should help us and make for better racing.”

Mercedes

The third team in the three-way battle for second in the championship have lost points through niggling problems in recent races – such as Lewis Hamilton’s^[9] contact damage in Japan and Nico Rosberg’s nose box collapsing in Korea.

Executive director Toto Wolff said: “The last three races have shown us that we have a real fight on our hands to secure second place in the constructors’ championship – but also that we have the performance to achieve our goal if we consistently deliver the full potential of the car.”

Sauber

Unusually for one of F1′s flyaway races Esteban Gutierrez^[10] has prior experience of this track having driven it during practice last year.

Sauber are rapidly closing on sixth-placed Force India in the constructors’ championship and with Gutierrez finally contributing to their points tally they may yet be able to set their sights even higher.

Force India

Naturally the Indian Grand Prix is a major weekend for F1′s only Indian-owned team.

“This is always a massive event for us and comes at the end of a very busy week because we will be spending a few days in Delhi ahead of the race to meet the local media and fans,” said Paul di Resta^[11], who hailed the circuit as “one of the best from the new generation of tracks”.

Williams

Like McLaren, another team that are marking time as a disappointing season draws to a close. Last time out a contretemps between their drivers over a lowly 16th place on the final lap^[12] served only to deepen their misery.

Toro Rosso

The team have been dogged by brake problems in recent events, which stymied both drivers’ races in Korea and caused a fire on Jean-Eric Vergne’s^[13] car during qualifying in Japan.

They made headlines in the week building up to the race by announcing Daniil Kvyat^[14] as their new driver for 2014.

Caterham

Giedo van der Garde^[15] was uninjured in his crash at the start of the Japanese Grand Prix but he described the 20G impact as “by quite a long way one of the biggest accidents I’ve had in my career”.

“It just shows how far F1 safety has come that I was out of the car and back in the team’s hospitality unit within about 20 minutes,” he added, ” and when I looked at the shots after the race I realised that it was, honestly, quite a lot of a bigger shunt than it had felt like in the car”.

Marussia

Bianchi suffered appalling luck during the last race weekend, completing just 32 laps in three days. “I’m working on the basis that Japan was my ‘jinx race’ and with that behind me I am very optimistic about the step we have taken with the car performance and the developments we have yet to bring,” he said.

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References

1. ^{^} 2014 F1 calendar (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
2. ^{^} Jules Bianchi (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
3. ^{^} garnering unimpressive average ratings of 5.3 out of ten from F1 Fanatic readers (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
4. ^{^} Pirelli expects strategy shift from “aggressive” tyres (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
5. ^{^} Sebastian Vettel (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
6. ^{^} Fernando Alonso (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
7. ^{^} Jenson Button (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
8. ^{^} Romain Grosjean (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
9. ^{^} Lewis Hamilton (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
10. ^{^} Esteban Gutierrez (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
11. ^{^} Paul di Resta (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
12. ^{^} Bottas says Maldonado’s last-lap move was ‘unfair’ (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
13. ^{^} Jean-Eric Vergne (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
14. ^{^} Daniil Kvyat (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
15. ^{^} Giedo van der Garde (www.f1fanatic.co.uk)
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Feds: Slain Boston suspect tied to 2011 killings

BOSTON (AP) — Slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was named as a participant in an earlier triple homicide by a man who was subsequently shot to death while being questioned by authorities, according to a filing made by federal prosecutors in the case against his brother, surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

According to the filing made Monday, Ibragim Todashev told investigators Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a triple slaying in Waltham on Sept. 11, 2011.

In that case, three men were found in an apartment with their necks slit and their bodies reportedly covered with marijuana. One of the victims was a boxer and friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter, was fatally shot at his Orlando home during a meeting with an FBI agent and two Massachusetts state troopers in May, authorities said. He had turned violent while being question, according to authorities.

The filing is prosecutors' attempt to block Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from getting certain information from authorities, including investigative documents associated with the Waltham slayings.

"The government has already disclosed to Tsarnaev that, according to Todashev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in the Waltham triple homicide," prosecutors wrote.

According to prosecutors, the ongoing investigation into the 2011 slayings is reason not to allow Dzhokhar Tsarnaev access to the documents he's seeking.

"Any benefit to Tsarnaev of knowing more about the precise 'nature and extent' of his brother's involvement does not outweigh the potential harm of exposing details of an ongoing investigation into an extremely serious crime, especially at this stage of the proceeding," prosecutors wrote.

Prosecutors also said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is not entitled to the information because his brother's criminal history will be relevant, if at all, only at a possible future sentencing hearing.

A phone message left for a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office was not immediately returned Tuesday night. A message left for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's federal public defender was also not immediately returned.

Authorities allege that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, and 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechens from Russia, planned and carried out the twin bombings near the finish of the marathon on April 15. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces 30 federal charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction and 16 other charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a gunbattle with police as authorities closed in on the brothers several days after the bombings.

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