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Photographs
Proposed survivor photographs, described by the defense as depicting all 17 amputees displaying prostheses or amputated limbs
On Day 51, Bruck described the proposed photographs as depicting all 17 amputation survivors displaying prostheses or amputated limbs. Weinreb described mostly smiling subjects in settings selected to minimize prejudice, and the court accepted the photographs. Mellin confirmed that a duplicate photograph of Kensky had been removed.
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Weinreb argued that the photographs illustrated the magnitude of the crime and the weight of three statutory and two non-statutory aggravating factors. Bruck challenged them as irrelevant, cumulative, and more prejudicial than probative; the court found that they summarized points the government was entitled to make.