Tsarnaev’s lawyers called only four witnesses in their attempt to convince the jury that his older brother Tamerlan masterminded the April 2013 attacks.
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Defense lawyers for admitted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested Tuesday, after their first full day presenting their case and after calling just four witnesses to testify.
The witnesses, called Monday and Tuesday, were FBI fingerprint examiner Elena Graff; digital forensic analyst Mark Spencer; Gerald Grant, a computer forensics expert from the New York federal public defender's office; and FBI photographer Michelle Gamble.
Their fourth and final witness, Graff, testified Tuesday that a large portion of the bomb making materials and gun-cleaning equipment recovered from the Tsarnaev home in Cambridge, Mass. had older brother Tamerlan's fingerprints on it and not the younger Tsarnaev.
Graff also told the jury that the FBI only found Tamerlan's prints on the hundreds of items taken from the bomb sites on Boylston St. However, on cross-examination, Graff said that the heat and force of the explosions might have destroyed other fingerprints.
Graff was preceded on the witness stand by Spencer, who spent more than 400 hours analyzing three Tsarnaev computers. Spencer highlighted both Tsarnaev brothers' search history. He also told the jury that Tamerlan uploaded a full copy of Inspire Magazine, the English-language online magazine published by al-Qaeda, to Dzhokhar's laptop one day before traveling to Russia in 2012.
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