Wednesday's proceedings began with U. District Judge George O'Toole talking to the defense team and prosecutors. He denied the defense's fourth attempt to have the trial moved out of Boston after lawyers claimed Tsarnaev cannot be fairly judged because too many people are personally connected to the case.
However the judge said that he would allowed the defense to talk to the jury about Tsarnaev's background, including details of his childhood and relationship with older brother, Tamerlan.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, second from left, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, center, standing in the crowd as Boston Marathon runners headed to the finish line on Boylston Street in Boston in April The prosecution's opening statement said Dzhokhar purposefully placed the bomb behind a row of children.
The trial is expected to be one of the most closely-watched terror cases in years. Defense attorney Timothy Watkins right is escorted into the federal courthouse by a police officer on the opening day of trial. The defense aims to portray Tsarnaev as having been under the spell of his year-old brother, Tamerlan, who they contend was the mastermind behind the attack. The jury was brought in and the judge instructed them on their role in the trial, emphasizing they must not discuss case among themselves or with others.
Prosecutors told the judge on Monday that they may want to show as evidence autopsy photos of the attack's victims. They also want to play clips from an FBI news conference where officials released photos of Tsarnaev and his older brother identifying them as suspects and setting off a course of events that led to a day-long lock-down of most of the Boston area amid a massive manhunt.
Defense attorneys, meanwhile, aim to portray Tsarnaev as having been under the spell of his year-old brother, Tamerlan, who they contend was the mastermind behind the attack. Tamerlan died following an April 18, , gun battle with police.
Tsarnaev's lawyers fought right up until the last minute to have the trial moved outside of Massachusetts, arguing that the emotional impact of the bombings ran too deep in the state and too many people had personal connections to the case. A police boat is docked outside the federal courthouse at the beginning of the trial on Wednesday amid a heightened police presence in Boston. Joe Kebartas holds a sign that reads 'Death Penalty is Murder' outside the courthouse. Tsarnaev could be sentenced to death if convicte.
Circuit Court of Appeals. A replaying of some of the graphic evidence of the attack could trigger fears among people who lived in the area during the bombing week, said Alice LoCicero, a Boston Medical Center psychologist who has researched the psychology of terrorist attacks.
A panel of 10 women and eight men, all white, were chosen to hear Tsarnaev's trial and, if they find him guilty, to determine whether to sentence him to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole in proceedings expected to last into June. Security was tight around Boston's waterfront federal courthouse, where officials have closed some nearby roads amid several large-scale construction projects. Defense attorneys had cited the 'Boston Strong' signs that hung on some of those sites in their four requests to move the trial out of the city that was the site of the largest mass-casualty attack on U.
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The cause of death were blast injuries to her torso and legs. If Hammers had left it at that, maybe the jurors and everybody else in the courtroom would have been thinking about all those other things that have flitted in and out of federal court the past week. But she went on, in clinical detail, and her words cut through everyone in the courtroom the way her scalpel cuts through flesh, looking for answers.
There was a pellet, a BB, embedded in the back of her ear. The back of her right upper arm was burned. She had a third-degree burn on her back. Some of the wounds were gaping, up to 10 inches long. We always hope we can save everyone, and we couldn't.
That's my frustration from last year, that we couldn't save her. Was the reaction kind of visceral, as well as emotional? Very much so. Until this day, thinking about her — she's somebody who will stay with me forever. I only treated her for minutes at the end of her life. And I've never forgotten, and I don't think I ever will. Were you trying to provide emotional support to her, as well as physical? You said she came in unconscious?
She never regained consciousness for us. But we always assume that people can hear us, so we tell them comforting things. And we told her she was in the tent. We told her that we were going to try to help her. When we stopped resuscitating her, I held her arm as she took her last breath. When you finally learned who she was, did that change the experience? My association with her, personally, has been very powerful. It's changed the way I view taking care of patients now. I think it's made me a better health care provider.
I think I'm a little more empathetic. Nurses are known for empathy and sympathy. I think I'm just more tuned into families' and patients' emotions than I was before. One juror cried and wiped her face with a tissue as the jury looked at autopsy photos and listened to the description of injuries suffered by Krystle Campbell. Judge George O'Toole Jr.
Campbell, a restaurant manager, was one of three people killed when twin pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the finish line of the marathon on April 15, More than people were injured, including at least 16 who lost legs. Tsarnaev's lawyer admitted during opening statements at his federal death penalty trial that he participated in the bombings but said he fell under the influence of his late older brother, Tamerlan, whom the defense has portrayed as the mastermind of the attack.
Jennifer Hammers, the medical examiner who performed Campbell's autopsy, said she had wounds all over her body, including gaping wounds to her legs, third-degree burns to her back and numerous wounds from BBs and pieces of metal.
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