Boston Court Fills Up as Victims Await Bomb Suspect Plea
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Lines formed outside a Boston courtroom hours before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of the first deadly terrorist bombing in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001, is to enter a plea on charges he killed three Boston Marathon spectators and shot a police officer to death.
About half of the 110 seats in the courtroom are reserved for victims and their families and a separate overflow room has been set aside for them, where the hearing this afternoon -- his first public appearance in a courtroom since he was charged -- can be watched on closed-circuit television.