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"...a compassionate, thorough and much-needed perspective of the story behind Dzhokhar Tsarnaev."In Boston, March 3, 2015, the day before the Marathon Bombing trial was about to begin, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the notorious bomber was dressed in a brown tweed jacket and tan pants. He shaved but grew a trimmed goatee. Dzhokhar sat in an empty courtroom with his legal team at the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse. His dark eyes avoided the reporter area, but he craned his neck looking everywhere in the room imagining it filled with victims and survivors from the bombings. When Dzhokhar was captured on the bullet-ridden boat for bombing the marathon on April 15, 2013 with his older brother Tamerlan, it ended a tense manhunt and lockdown. Bostonians took the streets, were wildly celebrating that the suspect had been found, had been arrested. While Dzhokhar lay wounded at the hospital, the government demanded that he stand trial in the deaths of three spectators and a MIT police officer. Author Aileen Lee brings a vivid and poignant story about Dzhokhar's case from the moment he was handcuffed to the grand moment of his trial. Dzhokhar, the silenced lone bomber had friends and they called him "Jahar." Jahar was only nineteen-years-old when he dropped a backpack bomb in a crowd of spectators watching the race. What led him to bomb the marathon with his older brother? Lee recorded tweets from reporters covering the trial that day - from horrific stories from the surviving victims to the evidence; from Dzhokhar's childhood stories to the verdict. The Boston Marathon Bombing trial is one of the most extraordinary trials of our time. Dzhokhar's case touched many people from all walks of life, including Christians, to pray for him. As this documentary reflects back on this case, how should our modern society respond to the perpetrator of this attack? To love him or to hate him, that is the all-important question. Jahar book is back for good. This documentary has been rewritten in an al