After a relatively quite three days of legal proceedings by the defense, the team representing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev opted to cross-examine their second witness on Tuesday morning. The subject matter was the two Twitter handles created by Tsarnaev that the prosecution suggested illustrated his guilt-free willingness to help detonate two bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line.

On Monday the prosecution called FBI Agent Steve Kimball to the stand, who was tasked with examining and preserving data from Tsarnaev’s two Twitter accounts after he was taken into custody.

Several tweets from the handles @J_Tsar and @Al_FirdausiA were shown to the jury. The former account has dispatched a total of 1,080 Tweets and the latter, only eight.

Agent Kimball testified that the cover photo shown on the @Al_FirdausiA account was a depiction of the city Mecca. He also alluded that some of the 45 select tweets shown on Monday illustrated Tsarnaev’s possible religious radicalism and no remorse from his role.

For example, the day after the Marathon bombing he tweeted:

Prior to capture, he tweeted:

The defense, however, in keeping with a trend of cross-examining expert witnesses instead of victims, attempted on Tuesday morning to poke substantial holes in the prosecution’s contention and Agent Kimball’s testimony.

The photo he identified as Mecca, public defender Miriam Conrad said, was actually a photo of Chechyna. Agent Kimball admitted he based the photo’s depiction on information provided by “intel agents and other agents” with the FBI.

All eight tweets from the @Al_FirdausiA account, Conrad pointed out, were posted within 48 hours of each other and that they, along with many of the more than 1,000 tweets from his @J_Tsar account, were taken out of context by Kimball.

One such Tweet, reading “September 10th baby, you know what tomorrow is. Party at my house! #thingsyoudontyellwhenenteringaroom,” the day before the bombing, one day before the September 11 terrorist attack on New York City, was actually a quote from a Comedy Central special.

Another containing the phrase “god hates dead people” was actually a quote from the Westboro Baptist Church.

Conrad went on to explain that multiple other tweets referenced rap lyrics and typical items like “sleep, girls, cars, homework” and “complaining about studying.”

Agent Kimball testified further that the select Tweets displayed on Monday were chosen by the prosecution because they “would be best served for the jury.”

In opening statements last week, the defense admitted Tsarnaev’s direct involvement with the bombings, which was at the behest of his older brother.

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