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Backpacks, Bombs, Blood: The Evidence Against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Photos)

From rigged pressure cookers, shrapnel, and bloody cop cars to the Watertown shootout crime scene, a look at what the Boston Marathon jurors are being shown by prosecutors.

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A blood-stained message that prosecutors say Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote on the inside of a boat is seen with bullet holes in an undated evidence picture shown to jurors. Tsarnaev, now 21, is accused of killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade bombs at the race's crowded finish line on April 15, 2013, as well as fatally shooting a police officer three days later as he and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev tried to flee the city.

U.S. Department of Justice/Handout via Reuters

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Blood is seen in a police car on a street where Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev engaged in a gunfight with police in this undated handout evidence photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston. Police and civilian witnesses at Dzhokhar’s trial recalled the ferocity of that gunfight.

Handout / Reuters

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Evidence markers are seen on the Watertown, Massachusetts, street where Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev engaged in the gunfight with police.

Handout / Reuters

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FBI Special Agent Kenneth Benton testified that he and fellow agents searched the landfill after a college friend of Tsarnaev's took this plaid backpack from Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s dorm room and tossed it into a dumpster.

Handout / Reuters

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A MoneyGram receipt, with the sender name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and received name of Zubeidat Tsarnaev.

Handout / Reuters

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An evidence marker sits next to a 9mm Luger handgun on a street where Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev engaged in the gunfight with police.

Handout / Reuters

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Evidence from the Boston Marathon bombing trial, including a pressure-cooker bomb recovered from the Watertown crime scene and a diploma for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is seen at the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston. The jury on Thursday saw the remains of a pressure-cooker bomb that prosecutors say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurled at police during a gunfight four days after the 2013 bombing as well as jihadi files recovered from his laptop.

Dominick Reuter / Reuters

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An unexploded metal bomb filled with explosive powder and lined with metal pellets is seen in an image entered as evidence.

Handout / Reuters

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Pieces of shrapnel taken from the body of Boston Marathon bombing victim Krystle Campbell. A jury on Thursday viewed mockups of the twin pressure-cooker bombs that ripped through the crowd at the race's finish line in 2013 and autopsy photos of one of the three people they killed.

Brian Snyder / Reuters

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Prosecutors’ photos of a black laptop case, a portable hard drive (top L), cellphone and spare batteries (C), and an homemade remote-control device (bottom R).

Handout / Reuters

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An unexploded metal bomb is seen in a still handout image entered as evidence.

Handout / Reuters

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A still image captured from surveillance video at the Boston Marathon shows the scene moments before a second bomb exploded as a man, marked with a circle by prosecutors (top R) and identified by them as defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, moves rapidly away from the spot near the finish line of the race on April 15, 2013, in this handout video provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston.

Handout / Reuters

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