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Certification of a public record from Immigration and Customs showing Tamerlan Tsarnaev's U.S. departure and return dates, which the defense proposed to introduce
Fick described a certified Immigration and Customs public record giving Tamerlan Tsarnaev's departure and return dates. The defense proposed introducing it alongside computer testimony to orient the jury to digital events near his departure, while the government objected that it could confuse or mislead the jury.
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The defense proposed using Tamerlan's travel dates to explain document movement between digital devices and address whether Dzhokhar self-radicalized; the government disputed the record's relevance to the guilt phase.