Testimony is over in the trial of Robel Phillipos, who left the federal courthouse in South Boston without comment as he has done the last two weeks.
The defense for the friend of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber rested after presenting the jury with a doctor familiar with substance abuse.
Attorneys for Phillipos say he was so high on marijuana he could not remember what happened on the night he allegedly lied to investigators about their investigation into Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a friend and college classmate of the defendant at the University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth.
Phillipos, 20, is accused of misleading investigators about whether he watched two other friends take evidence from the dorm of the alleged bomber after Tsarnaev had been identified as a suspect. One of those friends, Azamat Tazhayakov, who has been convicted of taking items from the bombing suspect's room, testified against Phillipos during his trial.
The government says Phillipos has confessed to lying to investigators about what he did with his friend on April 18, 2013 - the day the FBI released pictures of the alleged bombing suspects.
Prosecutors have tried to poke holes Phillipos' marijuana defense. His expert doctor admitted he couldn't say for sure how impaired the defendant was. Still, he said, Phillipos memory was most likely affected.
In court Thursday, Michael Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, testified for the defense.
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Dukakis is good friends with Phillipos’ mother and said he’s known Robel since he was a toddler and said he is a good kid.
The defense says Phillipos was too high that day to remember if he was in Tsarnaev's UMass Dartmouth dorm room and that he didn't intentionally mislead investigators.
