Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is likely to blame  his 'role model' dead brother at trial to avoid the death penalty. When Tsarnaev's case begins, his lawyers are likely to pin their hopes - and the bombings themselves - on his older brother, Tamerlan: a Golden Gloves boxer, college student, husband and father who also followed radical Islam was named by a friend as a participant in a grisly 2011 triple slaying. 'He was the eldest one and he, in many ways, was the role model for his sisters and his brother,' said Elmirza Khozhugov, the former husband of Tamerlan's sister, Ailina.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is accused of 30 crimes for allegedly working with his brother, Tamerlan, to plan and carry out the 2013 attack
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died days after bombings following gun battle with police
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Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when two homemade pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the race
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Dzhokhar's lawyers have made it clear they will try to show that he was heavily influenced, maybe even intimidated, by his older brother
'You could always hear his younger brother and sisters say, `Tamerlan said this,' and `@placeholder said that.'