Boston ( CNN ) -- Trying to show a softer , lighter side of accused killer and crime boss James `` Whitey '' Bulger , his defense lawyers have released photos that they say they would expect to show the jury should Bulger decide to testify . In response to a CNN question , his lawyers acknowledged , `` yes , '' they have prepared Bulger , 83 , to take the stand as they would any other witness . `` Every criminal defendant has until the last witness is presented on the defense to make a decision as to whether he or she will testify , '' said the lead counsel , J. W. Carney . Bulger , his lawyers say , is calling the shots and will make the decision Friday after the defense reads testimony from one victim 's mother and then calls its last two witnesses , an FBI secretary and admitted former hitman John Martorano . If Bulger does not testify , closing arguments will likely happen Monday . Bulger offers $ 822,000 to relatives of two murder victims . The 20 photos , released late Wednesday , show Bulger smiling and relaxed . Described as an animal lover , he 's seen separately with dogs , a goat and a parrot . In one photo he is seen posing in front of the Stanley Cup . In others , he appears smiling with girlfriend Catherine Grieg , who went into hiding with Bulger in 1995 and who was arrested with him 16 years later in 2011 living under an alias in Santa Monica , California . One of the men featured in a photo with Bulger was identified as a defrocked , formerly high-ranking official of the Boston archdiocese , Frederick J. Ryan , according to the lawyer for two former Catholic Memorial School students who brought sexual molestation claims against the archdiocese in 2002 . Attorney Mitchell Garabedian said that one of his clients and another person who worked with Ryan identified the former vice chancellor in the photo Thursday morning , after the images became public . Garabedian 's clients ' claims were acknowledged , and they received money as part of a settlement . Ryan was defrocked by the Vatican in 2006 . `` If the defense were trying to show a kinder , gentler Whitey , it certainly backfired , '' Garabedian told CNN Thursday . Prosecutor Fred Wyshak objected to the photos , saying , `` I do n't know if being an animal lover is going to salvage his reputation . '' Bulger laughed at the remark . The personal photos are a stark contrast to the numerous surveillance images shown to the jury . Bulger is facing 19 counts of murder as part of a racketeering conspiracy , and 13 counts of extortion , racketeering and money-laundering . Bulger 's lawyers have called five retired FBI agents who worked in Boston during Bulger 's alleged reign of terror in the late 1970s and 1980s . The defense team has repeatedly raised questions surrounding what the FBI did and did not do in investigating internal corruption and protecting confidential informants . Victim 's mother warned FBI about impending murder . Former Special Agent Matthew Cronin testified Thursday about rampant leaks in the Boston office that compromised several of his cases . Suspicion fell on Bulger 's handler , agent John Connolly , currently serving 40 years for crimes relating to Bulger . Having worked in New York City , Cronin said of the Boston field office , `` Here everyone was interested in everyone else 's business . You learned to keep your cards close to the vest . '' On cross-examination , prosecutor Brian Kelly asked Cronin , `` If the FBI does a lousy job , that does n't give a criminal the right to murder people , does it ? '' Judge Denise Casper sustained the defense team 's objection . Bulger , pale with a ring of gray stubble around his balding head , sits at the defense table either staring straight ahead or hunched over a pad taking notes . His brother Jackie has been court nearly every day , sitting in the front row reserved for Bulger 's family . Nephew Billy Bulger Jr. , son of former Massachusetts Senate President Billy Bulger , was also in court Thursday . Prosecutors wrapped up their case last week after calling 63 witnesses over 30 days . Casper is reviewing the defense 's motion to include an additional charge of `` accessory after the fact to murder '' in Bulger 's final charges . CNN 's Ross Levitt contributed to this report . CNN national correspondent Deborah Feyerick is live tweeting from inside the Boston federal courtroom , follow Feyerick at @ DebFeyerickCNN for live updates .
Bulger 's attorneys release photos showing him smiling and relaxed . He also is shown posing with Vatican and his girlfriend . A former Bulger agent says the Massachusetts office had rampant leaks . Ross Levitt is facing 20 counts of murder as part of a racketeering conspiracy .