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Both Sides Rest in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Trial

By Jeralyn, Section Terror Trials
Posted on Mon May 11, 2015 at 03:28:19 PM EST
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (all tags)
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Both sides rested their case today in the Dzhokar Tsarnaev trial. Closing arguments and deliberations begin Wednesday.

The defense ended its case with the testimony of Sister Helen Prejean. She testified she met with Tsarnaev five times over the past year and he expressed remorse.

"He said it emphatically. He said no one deserves to suffer like they did," said Prejean, the public face of the New Orleans-based Ministry Against the Death Penalty and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. "I had every reason to think that he was taking it in and that he was genuinely sorry for what he did."

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She was not paid for her testimony and she said she would not tell the jury Tsarnaev was remorseful if she really didn't believe it. "It was his voice...It had pain in it actually."

Also testifying today: Government rebuttal witnesses including the Warden of Supermax and the Michelle Nicolet, FBI official who is unit chief of the JTTF and in charge of SAMS. Reporter Jim Armstrong on Twitter recaps their testimony on the conditions at "H" Unit, the step-down program, and how SAMS are removed. He said the jury foreperson "among others" paid close attention to testimony about the restrictive conditions.

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