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Eric Traub's December 2010 letter of recommendation
Traub's December 2010 recommendation described Dzhokhar as a good student who absorbed new ideas quickly and was amiable, polite and respectful. In closing argument, Clarke recalled that Traub read the letter and affirmed that he still believed its assessment.
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Clarke invoked the letter in her penalty-phase account of Dzhokhar's earlier character while asking for a life sentence.