Carlos Arredondo (hero who helped Jeff Bauman) is here in courtroom 9 to watch the pr...

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Carlos Arredondo (hero who helped Jeff Bauman) is here in courtroom 9 to watch the proceedings
firsthand. USA Carmen Ortiz is here as well. She's talking w/ MIT Police Chief John DiFava.
Attorneys are present. Marshals have not brought in Tsarnaev yet. No Judge/Jury.
Marshals just brought in Tsarnaev. He appears to be wearing a white dress shirt brownish suit coat.

2. Tsarnaev's public defender Miriam Conrad just put a
single piece of paper in front of Tsarnaev. He read it ---
and slid it over to defense attorney Judy Clarke.
Tsarnaev appears relaxed, slouching in his chair.
Clarke is now handing photos to him.
Conrad just took the photos and put them in a binder.

3. We expect the photo of Tsarnaev giving his middle finger to a surveillance camera to be introduced
as an exhibit -- possibly sometime today -- and released to the public. Since the prosecution used the
photo during its opening statement yesterday, it's not considered evidence yet...
Judge Jury seated. Proceedings back underway.
Prosecutor Bill Weinreb calls Andrew Collier, brother of murdered MIT police officer Sean Collier.
Andrew Collier giving brief biographical details.
New photos just introduced of Collier family.

4. Andrew says he shared a bedroom with his brother Sean while growing up.
Andrew is 27. He's the youngest of four kids. Sean is older. The two brothers shared a bedroom and
were very close.
Andrew says they shared a love of car racing. They raced go-karts together. Andrew now works as a
mechanic for Hendrick Motorsports in Charlotte, NC.
Andrew bears a striking resemblance to his older brother Sean.
Andrew says he and his brother Sean loved go-carts, won a lot of races thus "made a lot of people

5. made."
Andrew says Sean wanted to be a police officer when he was young and "never grew out of it."
Andrew Collier says Sean was a "moral compass" - always did the right thing.
Andrew says Sean was the "moral compass" of the family. "It was black and white. What's right and
what's wrong. He was always on the side of what's right." Andrew says he sometimes got lectured
about killing a bug instead of releasing it outside.
Andrew says his brother did many great things, but didn't talk about it. The family learned of many

6. details after shot was murdered.
"He was just getting better by the day," Andrew describes his brother as an adult.
Andrew Collier: "we didn't talk on the phone every day, but when we did get together, it was like we
were never apart."
Jury now seeing a pic of Collier brothers as kids.
Next photo, school photo of Sean.

7. Now a pic from a family cruise. Sean, Andrew, and one of their sisters are posing in a pic at Señor
Frogs in Cozumel.
Andrew Collier relating story about that cruise, Sean, Andrew, and their sister almost missed the
boat because Andrew's cell updated to local time, whereas cruise ship did not.
Exhibit 1602-08 is Sean's school picture. 1608-14 is the family photo from the trip to Cozumel.
Andrew Collier relating details of how he learned Sean had been killed. Andrew was home in NC at
the time.

8. Andrew Collier says he thinks about his brother every day. "It's something that will affect me and my
family every day...it's a cloud hanging over us."
Andrew says he was home in North Carolina when he learned about his brother's murder. He woke
up to a bunch of missed calls. And when his sister told him the details, Andrew says his reaction
"was very much disbelief that it could be true."
Andrew says he thinks about his brother every day.
Andrew Collier: "I miss Sean. I miss everything about him." Collier steps down. No cross.

9. So far, the defense team has declined to cross-examine any victims.
Next witness is Sean's stepfather Joe Rogers.
Joe Rogers is an assistant Attorney General for Massachusetts.
Joe Rogers says he and Sean became close as Sean became an adult.
Joe Rogers says Sean bought Pats season tickets from him, but never had a chance to use them.

10. Joe Rogers says everything was black and white w/ Sean. Sean was always the one to "spill the
beans" when one of his siblings/steps siblings did something wrong. "He was a cop from an early
age."