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It happens that quickly here which will be proceeded by victim impact statements that will be read by the victims mother. we are expected also to hear from his girlfriend and from his uncle. all of course very close to him. a dramatic scene. >> its just eerie to think that odin lloyds girlfriend is aaron hernandezs fiances sister. >> reporter: exactly. they are estranged from each other, the two sisters. the fiance of aaron hernandez sitting in court openly weeping and holding onto his mother bu...

Perhaps thats exactly what the jury was discussing as they finally came to the conclusion that he was guilty of murder in the first degree and as paul callen explained earlier, what does cruelty mean because you have to find preplanning or cruelty, in this case its darn clear that he was absolutely indifferent after the fact. he went on and he lied and he pretended and was hanging out with people he killed him with and he went and claimed that he had nothing to lose. this is the right result car...

To them. by law, the addresses of everyone called for jury duty is also publicly assessable. at this point, the restriction on your talking to anyone about the case is lifted. you are under absolutely no obligation to talk to any member of the media about this case or indeed to anyone else. you are free to refuse to do so. you may wish to take some time to think about whether or not you wish to be interviewed. if you choose to talk you are in control of what you say. in other words, you may decl...

The m.i.t. police officer who sat in his patrol car on campus. they know they were both there but they dont know who pulled the trigger. on the boston marathon bomb it was clear that tamerlan pressed the detonator that caused the first bomb to go off but the government could not prove whether dzokhar tsarnaev had his own detonator or control or whether tamerlan pushed that too. that is why the heart of the governments case was they are in this too and that is the approach to the case the jury ha...

Face on all of this when he was talking about boston, it is a small community and the marathon is a 26 mile block party and that is what it is. during the marathon, boston is family and this was just one big family that pulled together both in their strength and unity and work to bring this case to where it is right now. >> john how quickly will this move. im getting a moment at 2:08 we have the judge and the jury filing into the courtroom. and our insider is saying tsarnaev is looking at the do...

>> john kelly is also with us former former prosecutor. to many this would seem to be a slam dunk not only in the preparation but what happened in the days after. how much do you think the defense, judy clark, did. how much do you think her words are carrying with this jury? >> i dont think anything at this point of the trial -- when you mention a slam dunk slam dunks require a lot of meticulous work. and whether it was boston p.d. or the u.s. attorney offices, the witnesses or the victims, a lo...

In a legal strategy is not a desire to fight a losing battle right, over facts that have been so clearly shown when you look at surveillance and the shutout and the information accumulated, but, thomas, what the defense did was try to use the duration of the trial to make the kind of arguments that may also help them in that second stage with regard to punishment. >> and meanwhile we have the 30 different counts for this jury to come throw, it will only take one out of the 17 capital counts for ...

Know an hour ago, thomas. is that out of the entire case the theory in every individual count, this jury had no doubt or exception no break from the prosecutions case with regard to the facts. it may have been possible that they might have convicted on 26 or 27 counts but found that the conspiracy was not proven the elements there, the 99 counts that pete wings were talking about. were seeing some folks starting to leave the courtroom there. now that it has been adjourned. no one going to the mi...

But it is a special collection of people that have taken this case to review and to discuss the 30 different charges that were leveled against tsarnaev. my colleague frances rivera is here with a look at the jurors who have been working over 11 hours on this. >> this is a group thats been together since the first part of the year. the jury was seated in early march, after nearly two months of whittling down the jury. that process was slowed by eded by tsarnaevs defense team. lets take a look. te...

Speak about this. but this was painful to be reminded of the trauma they endured two years ago. >> and america rallied around boston with boston strong and weve seen stories of brilliance and resilience after the tragedy on april 15th of 2013 and here we are less than two years later finding that dzokhar tsarnaev is guilty of all 30 counts in the courtroom. the judge has told the jury they will proceed to the second phase of the trial, the penalty phase. and he told them there is a task ahead of...