defense, they re basically arguing the sentencing phase. even though guilt or innocence on the murders will be decided first. yeah, it will be decided first. but what they ve essentially done is they ve basically taken the spotlight off of whether or not he did it they just said, look, he did it. they re still going to go through the state of the trial because the state has to prove it because we live in a country where it s the state s burden. they may stipulate to certain things so that the testimony doesn t get too graphic. but what they re going to focus the jury on and what they re going to focus everything on is the pressure on tsarnaev, on his love for his brother, on the fact that he was highly influenced by the brother. they re also going to point out every chance they can where the brother was the mastermind. they ll bring in panels of the boat where tsarnaev wrote certain things on the boat but they ll also bring in the side of the boat that was riddled with gunfire. and t