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She's actually in a weird way set herself up to be considered in the guilt phase and two jurors in particular she's going to be speaking to. she knows that they're on the fence and when she puts in the mitigating factors, i'm sure those two along with others, that's the backdrop for whether or not they're going to get a unanimous verdict for the death penalty. >> we're watching that case very closely. this verdict could come as soon as they get it at any -- they have it. when they get called back into the courtroom, we'll cover that. it could happen quickly. mark, i want to get one final thoug...

State that is not supportive of the death penalty. how do you weigh that? >> kate, it's a great question. how do you weigh the death penalty in a state that's been historically against it yet had a terrorist attack happened and in fact we're going to be running the boston marathon in just about a week here in boston and so the thing that i think is more important, kate, is you have two jurors, two jurors on this case in particular one a woman who works for a bookstore who said she's against, opposed to the death penalty but she would be willing to impose it under certain circumstances. you hav...

Through a guilt phase trial at all. the answer is first, he has a right to do that. he has the choice to do that. and that is his right. and his attorneys will do that. and that allows the defense to put on more evidence to put on than they would have just in the penalty phase. and they didn't offer much. and there was an offer for a guilty plea and there was a conscious decision not to do that and the government was going to pursue the death penalty. and at the very least she is hoping the jurors will have the deliberations ss tuned to the level of dzokhar's involvement and that is important ...

None of this. and now judy clark said what he did was -- [ technical difficulties ] >> the instruction to them knowing that is what they laid out, it has to be connected to whether or not they believe tamerlan was controlling the younger brother? >> they pretty much conceded he was involved that he was there. they are just trying to say that he was just following tamerlan all along and that really they are focused on the penalty phase. once we get beyond this guilt phase, there is a penalty phase. if he is found guilty on any one of the 17 charges that carries the death penalty, which would th...

Let's fly through the screens now because you will see aiding and abetting or conspiracy in every single one of these charges. nine to 12 now, aid abet, conspiracy, look at that, the common tleed through every single one of them. we're halfway through now. there they are again. the reason i do this danny is because who cares in judy clark can convince the jurors that big brother tamerlan was really the ring leader with aidesing and abetting and conspiracy is a part of every charge? >> well the liability said it's going to be hard to defeat that. but again as joey pointed out, this is a gamut. ...