The “honest idiot” case goes to the jury today.
As an aside, it is always remarkable to me the amount of time that both the prosecution and the defense take in presenting closing arguments in these high profile criminal cases. Although the article on the closing arguments does not disclose the exact amounts of time expended, my sense is that both sides spent hours in front of the jury on closing argument. That is a dubious strategy, and one which tired jurors will often hold against a lawyer and his client. If a lawyer has not persuaded the jurors of the validity of the lawyer’s theory of the case by the time of closing argument, then spending hours on end attempting to drum it into them will more likely alienate the jury than anything else.