Friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber due in court

The last of three friends of the incriminated Boston Marathon bomber to face malefactor charges for abstracting a laptop and backpack from the suspect's dorm room was due in court on Thursday

Robel Phillipos, a 20-year-old resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is charged with lying to investigators about his role in the April 18, 2013, visit to the dorm of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, three days after the bombing that killed three people and injured 264.

Two other friends, Kazakh exchange students Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, faced the more solemn charge of obstruction of equity for abstracting the items from Tsarnaev's room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and dropping them in a dumpster.

Tazhayakov was found guilty of obstruction in July and Kadyrbayev last month pleaded guilty to the charges, in exchange for a seven-year sentence that was less than the 25 years he could have faced if convicted at tribulation.

Phillipos, who has been largely confined to his home since his May 2013 apprehend, was to go on tribulation in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts later this month and faces a sentence of up to 16 years in confinement if convicted.

Tsarnaev is awaiting a tribulation set to commence in November. He faces the possibility of execution if found guilty of carrying out the pernicious bombing and withal murdering a university police officer three days later.