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A prosecutor asked jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing case to convict Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the end of a trial that began with a defense lawyer conceding his guilt.

Tsarnaev’s attorneys used the 16-day proceeding not to contest whether he helped his brother kill three and injure hundreds in the attack, but to set the stage for the penalty phase.

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The former college student, also accused of shooting a police officer to death in the days after the bombing, faces a possible death sentence. The same Boston jury will decide his punishment later if it convicts him.

“The defendant brought terror to backyards and main streets,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty told the jury Monday in federal court in Boston. “The defendant thought his values were more important than the people around him.”

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Tsarnaev chose “a family day,” Chakravarty said. “He chose a day when the eyes of the world would be on Boston.”

More than 260 people were injured when two homemade bombs exploded near the marathon finish line on April 15, 2013. Since then, Boston residents have been transfixed by the drawn-out case and divided over whether the death penalty or life in prison is appropriate.