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Digital Evidence
A file-transfer sequence involving Tamerlan's Samsung computer, the missing Patriot thumb drive, the Sony associated with Jahar, and the Hewlett-Packard home computer, which Fick proffered occurred on January 21, 2012
Fick said he expected evidence to show that a document existed first on Tamerlan's Samsung and then was created on the Patriot thumb drive and the Sony before the thumb drive reached the Hewlett-Packard home computer. He proffered that the sequence occurred shortly before Tamerlan's departure from the country, and the Court deferred the disputed admissibility questions.
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The defense proposed the sequence to dispute inferences about self-radicalization and file origins; the government argued that the account concerned relative culpability rather than guilt.