article_snippet.sent: The defendant brought terrorism into the backyards and main streets," Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty said.
article_snippet.sent: The defendant wanted to awake the mujahideen, the holy warriors, so The defendant chose Patriots Day, Monday," a time for families to gather and watch the 2013 Boston Marathon.
article_snippet.sent: Tsarnaev "chose a day when the eyes of the world would be on Boston," Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty said. "
article_snippet.sent: Tsarnaev, 21 years old, stands accused of 30 counts, including setting off weapons of mass destruction at a public event as an act of terrorism.
article_snippet.sent: Seventeen of 30 counts, including setting off weapons of mass destruction at a public event as an act of terrorism carry a sentence of death or life imprisonment.
article_snippet.sent: This was a cold, intentional, terrorist act," the prosecutor said.
article_snippet.sent: The defense has maintained that Tsarnaev, who was 19 and flunking out of college at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, fell under the sway of his older, more radicalized brother.
article_snippet.sent: William Weinreb pointed out that after the bombing Tsarnaev went to the grocery store.
article_snippet.sent: Tsarnaev didn't turn Tsarnaev into a murderer.
article_snippet.sent: Twelve seconds later, Tsarnaev allegedly detonated a second, similar bomb outside the Forum restaurant, slightly more than a block away.
highlights_snippet.sent: : Tsarnaev "wanted to awake the mujahideen, the holy warriors" 