article_snippet: Defense lawyers opened the trial last month with a blunt admission that Tsarnaev, a native Chechen, had done everything federal prosecutors claimed.
article_snippet: On trial: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, pictured left in a photo submitted for evidence, is on trial for carrying out the deadly bombings with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev older brother, Tamerlan, right, who later died during a shootout with police .
article_snippet: By painting Tamerlan as the driving force behind the attacks, the defense aims to spare Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a death sentence and secure Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a life sentence instead.
article_snippet: After the prosecution calls the prosecution last witness, the defense will have a chance to call the prosecution own witnesses, which could include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
article_snippet: But its own witnesses, which could include Tsarnaev himself will be limited in how much evidence its own witnesses, which could include Tsarnaev himself put forward about the relative blame of the two brothers before the jury determines whether its own witnesses, which could include Tsarnaev himself client is guilty of the charges he faces.
article_snippet: If the jury does find he guilty, the trial will enter a penalty phase, when both sides will call another round of witnesses before the same jury determines whether Tsarnaev should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without the possibility of parole.