article_snippet.sent: While the defense rarely cross-examined witnesses in the first portion of the trial
article_snippet.sent: , the defense rarely cross-examined witnesses in the first portion of the trial will be more active in the next stage as the defense rarely cross-examined witnesses in the first portion of the trial attempt to convince the jury against sentencing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death.
article_snippet.sent: In the first portion of the trial, the defense alluded to an argument that then 19-year-old Tsarnaev was influenced by 19-year-old Tsarnaev radicalized older brother Tamerlan.
article_snippet.sent: Attorneys will likely continue that storyline with this next phase of the trial, exploring the brothers relationship, Attorneys childhood in Soviet Russia and Kyrgzstan and Attorneys later immigration to the U.S. with Attorneys parents.