The American teen arrested with a pair of Kazakh students in connection with the Boston Marathon bomb probe is facing hard time and likely is under intense pressure to tell everything he knows, legal experts say.
Robel Phillipos, 19, who grew up in Cambridge, Mass., and went to high school with chief suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has been charged with lying to federal investigators when being questioned about Tsarnaev’s activities at UMass-Dartmouth, where they attended college.
