tempering in the nature of the communication with the osundairo brothers. arguing middle medical records, that they hold the back. the doctor testified under oath smollett had no known injuries. jussie smollett had in and time motive with black gay marriage and pending music video shoot. he didn t want to pay damage and $3500 for training, not that i will spare the defense attorney telling the jury they don t have to feel pressure to convict just because chicago police spent thousands of man-hours on the case and the defense reminding the jury as a security guard testified under oath he saw at least one white person run away from smollett s team and climbed to one of the attackers was white putative convicted jussie smollett faces three years in prison for probation and community service on the table, shannon. shannon: matt, thank you very much. let s dig in deeper into the trial to break down the closing
closing arguments just wrapped in the trial of jussie smollett. pr prosecutors spoke for two hours before the defense team took over. the actor faces six counts for staging a racist homophobic attack against himself. cnn s omar jimenez joins us from chicago. each side is accusing the other side of putting liars on the stand. what were the key arguments, would you say, from each side? reporter: well, victor, alisyn, after nearly three years this criminal trial of jussie smollett is set to head to the jury. they re getting their instructions right now. the defense in their closing arguments spoke for nearly two hours, and of the osundairo brothers who testified that jussie smollett paid them to stage a fake hate crime, the defense attorney said they lied, not only to this court but that
evidence against the actor. judge, predictions? judge jeanine: guilty and i will tell you why. i lived in chicago for three years, but the idea that you will meet up with these guys, one of whom you had a relationship within a bath house at 2:00 in the morning a cold night chicago when you go out to buy eggs. and you decide to have a sandwich. what happened to your diet that you said you had your eggs on? and you text message the osundairo brothers giving your location. none of it makes sense. he will be found guilty in probation because it s not a big offense. but he will get his sued for the amount of time the police tried to solve the crime. greg: there you go, jessica, you saw the media at support him up front and people said, how gullible but my belief is the media is so acceptable to the hoax because we have been inundated with this
so deliberations will now continue tomorrow morning. in closing arguments today, special prosecutor dan webb presented the jury with six points he says destroyed smollett s credibility. in short, webb and police allege smollett withheld critical evidence like cell phone data because he never wanted the alleged hoax to actually be solved. the prosecution also telling the jury that smollett mislead police about attacker s i.d., lied but the news and lied about communication with the osundairo brothers. corroborate osundairo testimony that they held back punches. a doctor testifying under oath that smollett had no known injuries. smollett s defense telling the jury that jussie smollett had anti-motive upcoming historic black gay marriage on tv and impending video he didn t want his face damaged paid for training not the hoax. telling the jury they don t have to convict just because
visited the scene on the preceding days so that you can stage this, and you have to kind of explain, well, wasn t that you there? what about the fact that it s 2:00 a.m. and people know where you are? don, i could go on. so when you have to explain, explain, explain, it becomes this is way too much explaining for me to the point that the narrative is inconsistent. it doesn t make sense. and did you really do this? and so, look, i get why he took the stand. i think at the end of the day, actor talented or not, it s just too much to overcome with respect to facts that are compellingly against him. then there s also dan webb as well, a very talented prosecutor. so the osundairo brothers say smollett paid them to carry out the attack to get media attention. the jury has now heard both brothers story and smollett s story. is this going to end up just being about who the jury finds most credible? is it not just the humanization