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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev— Case Archive
locationlocationCentral Asiatravel_locationCentral AsiaRaisat Suleimanova testified that the Tsarnaev family moved repeatedly between Central Asia and Dagestan and stayed mostly with her family when visiting Kaspiysk from Central Asia. Michel Reynolds described the forced deportation of Chechens to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 1944 as historical background to the family's origins. In penalty-phase rebuttal, William D. Weinreb argued that Dzhokhar was born in Central Asia and spent his early years in a supportive extended family.
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Raisat Suleimanova testified that the Tsarnaev family moved repeatedly between Central Asia and Dagestan and stayed mostly with her family when visiting Kaspiysk from Central Asia. Michel Reynolds described the forced deportation of Chechens to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 1944 as historical background to the family's origins. In penalty-phase rebuttal, William D. Weinreb argued that Dzhokhar was born in Central Asia and spent his early years in a supportive extended family.

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Central Asia formed part of the family-history background presented in mitigation. In rebuttal, Weinreb invoked Dzhokhar's birthplace there and supportive extended-family upbringing to challenge the defense's mitigation account.

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