10.Heidi Williams — Direct/Cross

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Good afternoon, Agent Williams.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: How long have you been an FBI agent?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: For purposes of this case -- for purposes of this trial, I should say, did I ask you to do something?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: What did I ask you to do?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And so did you do that?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And are you here today to simply read a few materials that are already in evidence to the jury?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And did you extract these text messages?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Did you do research on the -- all of the conversations around each of these text messages?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Okay. So in addition to the text messages, was there a report from a -- one of the computers that was seized in the case and already entered into evidence that you also reviewed?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And was that part of the Internet activity from the Sony VAIO laptop computer?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And again, did you do -- are you an expert in the history or the computer forensics on how those were extracted?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And did you read those, and are you going to read some of those records that are already in evidence to the jury today?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: If we could, Mr. Bruemmer, first call up Exhibit 1385.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Agent Williams, if you would just read this text message which appeared on the Sony VAIO laptop on November 6, 2012, at approximately 10:30 p.m. and 59 seconds?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: I believe so. Yes, your Honor. Agent Swindon introduced these.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Yes, please. Sorry. All of the evidence which Agent Williams is going to be reading is in evidence.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Wait one moment. Thank you.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Yes. Please proceed.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Now, the "to" person to whom this was sent is redacted in this exhibit. Is that correct?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And that's correct for all of the text messages that you've reviewed, correct?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Now, independently you've reviewed -- you know who those persons are, you just redacted it for purposes of these exhibits?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Go to Exhibit 1387.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And is this a text message exchange on Christmas day of 2012?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And is it about 12:56 a.m., so shortly after midnight on the 24th, Christmas Eve?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "Oxford or are all those schools too easy for you?"

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "Ivy schools are a force. Oh, shit. He's going to Harvard. That's crazy. None other reason than this. No point in going there other than to look good."

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: N word "need to understand you don't ivy school to be successful."

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "What do you want to be? Sniper? Pyro? Engineer? Knowledge to become imam? Biologist? That shit crazy. WTF." Is that a phrase for, what, the F word?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "Imam Tsarnaev then? Spy?"

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Go to Exhibit 1388, please.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Now, is this later that evening at about 11:43 p.m. and two seconds, again on Christmas Day, December 25, 2012?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And these are texts from the defendant?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And do you know if they were to the same person?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And what did the defendant say?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Could we go to Exhibit 1395, please.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Now, is this another exchange between the defendant and the same person?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And was this about a month later, on January 28th, 2013, beginning at about 11:36 p.m. and 12 seconds?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Okay. If you could begin with reading the defendant's part?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "I think it's a little too early. I don't even know if I want I get married, bro."

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "To?."

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "The only good thing about having a wife is" the P word is "halal."

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "Jihad? I really am down for that jihad life though. I've been thinking about that lately. LOL" or laugh out loud, "yeah, true, true."

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "And it's affecting my future plans. I don't even know if I want to go to college."

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "Aight. We gotta chill sometime, man. I'm trying to study Islam or the Qur'an. No bueno. I didn't get a chance to chill with you over the break."

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "There has to be Islamic schools other than at Medina. If not, then I gotta save up my money and go there."

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "You're looking at a future imam. When are you coming back for break?"

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: "I prefer jihad than an imam. LOL. I'm not a very good public speaker. And damn we definitely gotta chill, bro."

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And these conversations that we've excerpted and presented as exhibits, they're part of longer conversations. Is that fair to say?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And do these portions of the conversations appear to be a part where they're talking about one subject matter?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And just to clarify, the person with whom this conversation was happening was not Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Is that right?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Can we go now to Exhibit 1142-06. This is on the computer.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And is this the other document that I asked you to review and read?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: I'll zoom in. So is this the report generated by the FBI for selected Internet activity from the 1R6, the Sony VAIO laptop computer?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: We'll go down now to page 14 of this document and I'll zoom in. I'm just going to read a few of the entries. Starting with these two, can you read the website that this computer went to?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And I'm going down to the bottom of page 16. This is a little harder to read, so I'll ask you to read the parsed-out description of the page.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And then it attributes the photo -- or a photo?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And I think you said "confronts." Is it "a man comforts"?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Page 17. Are there more entries about the Boston Marathon?

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Yes, please.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: And finally the last entry that I'm going to ask you to read.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Thank you, Agent Williams.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Your Honor, the government has no objection to context, but not to reading in items that are not in evidence.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Objection, your Honor. It's beyond the scope.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Nothing further, your Honor. Thank you.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: The government would object to that. The testimony is already in, your Honor.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Portions are in, not the thousands and thousands of text messages, which is another portion of the text message which would be the defendant's statement.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: There's no context aside from what, you know, the defendant has...

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: Correct.

MR. WEINREB: Can we approach, your Honor?

MR. WEINREB: So we are requesting that we break for the day. We're about to move into some lengthy expert testimony, and I think it's going to be hard to follow it if it's broken up.

MR. WEINREB: It's a pair of --

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: An explosive chemist and then following him would be the explosives expert. He's going to describe how the IEDs were made.

MR. WEINREB: We only have a half-hour left in the day.

MR. WEINREB: Well, we think that Mr. Knapp will probably be quite some time because he has to look at a lot of physical evidence. So between the two of them and cross, several hours.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: No, that might be a witness tomorrow. I think tomorrow we might call somebody who was present during the search.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: We could authenticate -- we can work that out.

MR. CHAKRAVARTY: We don't have an objection to something -- the authentication of something that we obviously seized, and so we'll have a witness tomorrow that will be able to do that.

MR. MELLIN: A bigger issue: I think there's probably a very good chance we'll wrap up tomorrow, just to give the Court some --

MR. WEINREB: There is a very good chance that we'll wrap up tomorrow, but we're not 100 percent.

MR. WEINREB: Your Honor, as a court issue I would like to raise something but we don't need to leave the jury in the box. Or I could raise it now, whichever you prefer.

MR. WEINREB: So these need to be addressed at the sidebar.