BOSTON — The defense team for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Wednesday tried to blunt the shock value of an incendiary photo that the prosecution showed the jury of him thrusting his middle finger at a security camera three months after the bombing.
The prosecution on Tuesday had said that the defiant gesture showed Mr. Tsarnaev was “unconcerned, unrepentant and unchanged” after being charged with killing three people and wounding 264 others at the 2013 Boston Marathon.
But on Wednesday, the defense showed the jury a fuller portion of the surveillance video, recorded in July 2013, from which the single frame of the obscene gesture had been taken.
Miriam Conrad, a defense lawyer, said as she cross-examined a government witness that the surveillance camera had a shiny reflective cover, like a mirror.