What Is Next For The Boston Bombing Suspect?

What Next For Boston Bombing Suspect? -- Jessica Dye, Reuters

(Reuters) - A decision to charge the Boston Marathon bombing suspect in a civilian rather than a military court means he will face the same legal process as other federal criminal defendants in U.S. courts.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was charged on Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting in death.

The White House said earlier that Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen who is a naturalized U.S. citizen, would not be treated as an enemy combatant for his alleged role in last week's bomb attacks, which killed three people and wounded more than 200.

These are the likely next steps in his case, legal experts said.

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My Comment: My prediction .... this case will take a few years and millions in legal costs before a guilty verdict is delivered. And in the end .... he will not be executed for the simple reason that the lawyers and their psych specialists will make the case that he was "brainwashed" by his brother. If anything .... I can now see Dzhokhar Tsarnaev being released when he is in his 40s.