article_snippet: that prosecutors say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurled at police during a .
article_snippet: convicted of charges that include carrying out the bombing and . shooting dead a university police officer three days later as a university police officer . and Tamerlan, 26, tried to flee Boston.
article_snippet: Tsarnaev's lawyers opened the trial early this month by .
article_snippet: bluntly admitting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev carried out the bombing and shooting.
article_snippet: goal is to convince the jury that the plot was driven by .
article_snippet: that could persuade the jury to sentence the younger brother to .
article_snippet: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev casually leans on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hand during Dzhokhar Tsarnaev death penalty trial on Thursday, March 19 .
article_snippet: Separately on Thursday, Middlesex County District Attorney .
article_snippet: trial on bombing charges.
article_snippet: The jury earlier in the trial heard testimony about how .