To pass on the defense argument fairly, a jury would have to know the specific words.

Prosecutors have gone to great lengths to anticipate and counter defense arguments.

However, Furnari could not use this as a defense argument.

The jurors rejected some of the defense arguments against execution, the verdict form shows.

Andersen barely heard the rest of the defense argument.

It was a dramatic, and apparently successful, move to defuse a main defense argument.

After this testimony the prosecution rests, and the defense argument begins.

If some of the instructions were beneficial to the prosecution, others appeared to lean toward defense arguments in the case.

The jury, which took 20 hours to reach a decision, rejected the defense arguments as contradictory.

The note from the juror came after an earlier development indicating that some jurors had been convinced by much of the defense argument.