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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev— Case Archive
evidenceevidencephysical2015 Federal TrialPressure cooker bombsIn the Day 27 defense opening, Clarke acknowledged that Tamerlan and Jahar Tsarnaev placed backpack-carried pressure cooker bombs outside Marathon Sports and the Forum restaurant, respectively. In the Day 49 penalty-phase opening, Pellegrini described lethal explosions that killed three people and embedded bomb fragments in buildings across the street.
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Pressure cooker bombs

In the Day 27 defense opening, Clarke acknowledged that Tamerlan and Jahar Tsarnaev placed backpack-carried pressure cooker bombs outside Marathon Sports and the Forum restaurant, respectively. In the Day 49 penalty-phase opening, Pellegrini described lethal explosions that killed three people and embedded bomb fragments in buildings across the street.

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In the penalty-phase opening, Pellegrini invoked the pressure cooker bombs' construction, placement, and destructive effects in arguing substantial planning, grave risk of death to others, and cruelty as reasons for a death sentence.

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