article_snippet: Tsarnaev's lawyer admitted during opening statements at Tsarnaev's lawyer federal death penalty trial that Tsarnaev's lawyer participated in the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings but said Tsarnaev's lawyer fell under the influence of Tsarnaev's lawyer late older brother, Tamerlan, whom the defense has portrayed as the mastermind of the terror attack.
article_snippet: After that testimony, prosecutors are expected to rest their case in the first phase of the trial, the guilt phase.
article_snippet: Then the defense will present the defense case, which is expected to be brief since Tsarnaev's lawyers have admitted his guilt.
article_snippet: During the second phase of the trial — known as the penalty phase
article_snippet: — the same jury will decide if Tsarnaev is sentenced to death or spends the rest of Tsarnaev life in prison.
highlights_snippet: The prosecution is expected to rest the Boston Marathon bombing case early next week .