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Boston bombing trial set to open

– Some 1,200 potential jurors –

The jury selection that begins Monday is expected to last at least two weeks and 1,200 people have been summoned for the process.

Groups of about 250 people will be brought in beginning Monday and ending Wednesday to answer questions about trial issues. Attorneys will then study these answers to begin the process of elimination that will result in a group of 12 jurors and six alternates.

The prosecution will be one of the most important for the government since the Timothy McVeigh bombing trial in 1997 that ended in a death sentence. READ: Man killed by FBI links Boston bomber to triple murder

Tsarnaev will be defended by a team of five lawyers, including Judy Clarke, an expert in death penalty cases who has helped spare her clients from capital punishment numerous times.

Tsarnaev has been held in near-solitary confinement in federal prison outside of Boston. He has made two appearances since his arrest.

Tsarnaev appeared in a courtroom in 2013 to plead not guilty to the 30 charges against him, including using a weapon of mass destruction. He also appeared last month for a pre-trial hearing.

According to the indictment, the government believes the Tsarnaev brothers acted alone. The government portrays them as radicalized lone wolves, who learned how to make bombs from an Al-Qaeda publication online.

A message inside the boat where Tsarnaev was found after the manhunt offers a glimpse into the possible motive behind the crime:

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“The US government is killing our innocent civilians… We Muslims are one body… Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop,” it read.

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