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## Transcript

Federal prosecutors asked a judge to keep Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from seeing autopsy photos of Boston Marathon bombing victims. While many of the images that came out of the moments immediately after the bombing were difficult to look at, prosecutors say autopsy photos would be worse, and cause needless harm. They say unless the images are evidence in the trial, letting him see them would violate the victims right to dignity and privacy. Tsarnaev faces thirty federal charges connected to last years Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260. He faces a possible death sentence if convicted.

Prosecutors note Tsarnaev's attorneys will have access to whatever evidence they file, which they're not challenging. They cited child pornography cases and others where state secrets were withheld from the actual defendants. In a court filing, prosecutors argued giving Tsarnaev access to the photos would re- victimized their family members in the same way that innocent children who are photographed pornographically are re- victimized whenever those photos are seen by others. Tsarnaev's defense attorneys have argued he was heavily influenced by his older brother and second suspected bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died fleeing from officers four days after the bombings.

But late last month prosecutors filed another document saying Tsarnaev made a statement to his detriment talking to his sister while an FBI agent was in the room. The court filing did not say what the statement was. Tsarnaev's trial date is set for November. I'm Cliff Judy.

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