Today's summations are notable not for the knockout punches or unexpected surprises, but their length.
Closing arguments from the prosecution's Joshua Steinglass will take the session well into the evening
It's just after 17:00 local time, and Steinglass might have hours to go until he is finished (according to his earlier estimate).
We asked some legal experts if this is normal. At least one says, not really.
"It is unusual for a defendant’s closing argument to go nearly three hours and also unusual for the prosecution to go 4.5 hours," says Mitchell Epner, a white collar lawyer in New York.
He believes that while the defence may have lost the jury at points, "the prosecution is telling a coherent story, so it is less likely to lose the attention of the jury".
"But," he adds "It is exhausting to listen closely for this long."
Former Brooklyn prosecutor Julie Rendelman told us when summations get into the fourth and fifth hour, you are "likely going to start to lose jurors".
"This is particularly true when the most significant parts of the summation are towards the end when the jurors can barely stay awake," Rendelman says.
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