Tsarnaev, a 21-year-old ethnic Chechen, early this month was found
guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 in the April 15,
2013, attack, as well as fatally shooting a police officer three
days later as he and his brother prepared to flee the city.
In the first day of the sentencing phase of Tsarnaev's trial, the
jury heard from three people badly injured by the bombs and from the
father and brother of Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant
manager who was one of the three people killed by the blasts.
Campbell's father, William, described waiting at a hospital while
doctors operated on a person who they believed to be his daughter,
but who turned out to be a friend of hers. It was early in the
morning after the bombing when he learned his daughter had died.
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Prosecutors told jurors they would be hearing more about the lives
of the other fatal victims, 8-year-old Martin Richard, 23-year-old
Chinese graduate student Lingzi Lu and 26-year-old Massachusetts
Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier.
Defense attorneys opted not to make their opening statements on
Tuesday, instead planning to make them early next week when they
begin to call their own slate of witnesses aimed at persuading the
jury to spare their client's life.
Their argument is expected to focus on 26-year-old Tamerlan
Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar's older brother, who died following a gunfight
with police hours after Collier's slaying.
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Defense attorneys have painted the elder Tsarnaev as the mastermind
of the bombing with Dzhokhar following out of a sense of familial
fealty rather than personal conviction.
Anticipating that argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nadine
Pellegrini in her opening statement noted that both Tsarnaevs had
read al Qaeda's "Inspire" magazine, which offered instructions in
bomb making and that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left behind a note suggesting
the attack was an act of retribution for U.S. military campaigns in
Muslim-dominated countries.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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