the person that planned this and his brother was following along. that s right. dzhokhar was the follower, tamerlan master minded this according to defense, and essentially these witnesses were meant to prove that dzhokhar really was not involved in construction of the bomb was not involved buying the pressure cooker, that dzhokhar basically followed, didn t even download the jihad stuff that tamerlan downloaded and transferred it to dzhokhar s computer. that s a defense strategy. the prosecution really presented a mountain of evidence all kinds, from witnesses to autopsy photos. the jury at one point members were crying during their presentation, so they have a break until closings monday. but the jury really had a lot of evidence that was presented to them has to weighed through a lot. they certainly do. another big question out there, why wasn t tamerlan tsarnaev s wife called to testify? i think a lot of people were
welcome back to the latest in the boston bombing trial. closing arguments are scheduled for monday. dzhokhar tsarnaev s defense team rested their case yesterday after calling just four witnesses in two days amounting to barely five hours of testimony. the final witness for the defense was an fbi fingerprint examiner who testified that dzhokhar tsarnaev s fingerprints were not found on any of the marathon bomb fragments, only his brother s fingerprints were found. two of dzhokhar s fingerprints were found on an unexploded cupper wear bomb discovered after the shootout in watertown, but had six of tamerlan s too. joining me boston globe mike belos. the defense says that dzhokhar tsarnaev is a guilty man, but we know their strategy is to portray tamerlan as the leader