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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev— Case Archive
evidenceevidencedocument2015 Federal TrialWritings inside the boat, discussed by counsel in disputing whether the proposed photographs could illuminate the defendant's state of mind when he wrote themWatkins proposed photographs of Tsarnaev leaving the boat to explain his state of mind in response to the government's use of the writings as motive evidence. The government objected that uncertain timing between the writing and the photographs risked misleading the jury.
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Writings inside the boat, discussed by counsel in disputing whether the proposed photographs could illuminate the defendant's state of mind when he wrote them

Watkins proposed photographs of Tsarnaev leaving the boat to explain his state of mind in response to the government's use of the writings as motive evidence. The government objected that uncertain timing between the writing and the photographs risked misleading the jury.

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Watkins described the boat writings as central to the government's motive case and argued that photographs could help explain the defendant's state of mind when he wrote them.

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