Survivors, relatives, and police officers described the Marathon explosions, rescues, and injuries. FBI witnesses addressed surveillance collection, and the Forum video was admitted. The court addressed photograph and injury-testimony objections, cautioned against testimony concerning punishment rather than guilt, and required prior permission for references to Iraq or Afghanistan.
Full day summary
Survivors, family members, and police officers described the Marathon explosions, rescue efforts, and injuries. FBI witnesses addressed surveillance collection and digital extraction, and the Forum surveillance video was admitted. The court also addressed repeated defense objections concerning photographs, injury testimony, and evidence potentially relevant to punishment rather than guilt.
Before the jury entered, the court generally overruled exhibit objections but limited similar Boylston Street photographs. It later rejected a renewed defense challenge to survivor injury testimony, finding the prior day's testimony within bounds. Officer Frank Chiola described administering tourniquets and chest compressions, including assisting a woman he later learned was named Krystle. Jeffrey Bauman recounted seeing a man carrying a black backpack, then an unattended backpack after the man was no longer visible. Bauman acknowledged unclear facial details when helping prepare a sketch and identified nobody in the initial photographs investigators showed him. He said he later recognized the man in a news picture without doubt. He also described losing both legs above the knee and continuing hearing problems.
Richard Claflin and James Marinelli described collecting surveillance equipment and documenting its custody. Marinelli was uncertain where the Forum video was first reviewed. James Tyra authenticated the Forum video copy, admitted as Exhibit 23, and described someone leaving a backpack shortly before a blast without identifying that person. He also explained GPS extraction using a write blocker and gave qualified recognition of waypoint maps. The GPS and maps were shown for identification; no admission was recorded. The court subsequently stated that witnesses generally should not interpret evidence or give opinions.
Alan Hern described helping his injured son Aaron and Aaron's hospital treatment. Officer Lauren Woods recounted assisting Lingzi Lu and remaining with her covered body until ordered to evacuate. Roseann Sdoia described her rescue, above-the-knee amputation, rehabilitation, and phantom pain. Following a defense challenge to Woods's testimony and military references, the court cautioned that some testimony concerned potential punishment rather than guilt. It required prior permission for references to Iraq or Afghanistan until a later stage when they might be relevant.
Officer Thomas Barrett described extinguishing burning clothing, applying an improvised tourniquet whose effectiveness he did not know, and carrying three-year-old Leo to paramedics. William Richard described rescuing Jane and Henry, returning to Denise and Martin, and his family's injuries and Martin's death, while qualifying parts of his rescue recollection. The defense asked no cross-examination questions of the day's witnesses. The court recessed jury evidence until Monday at 9 and received the defense's victim-impact motion for filing without sealing.