The jury tasked with assessing whether R Kelly made a sex tape with an underage girl has begun its deliberations in Chicago.
The court was suspended on Monday morning, with the I Believe I Can Fly star accused of filming himself engaging in sex acts with a girl who prosecutors say may have been as young as 13 at the time.
And the video was screened again on Thursday as the prosecution made their summing up arguments.
Kelly's lawyer Samuel Adam Jr chose to quote the Bible in attacking the testimony of prosecution witness Lisa Van Allen, who says she had three-way sex with Kelly and the alleged victim on a number of occasions.
"Second Corinthians 11, verse 14. And Satan shall come disguised as an angel of light," he said.
"That is what she is. She is a liar. She is an extortionist," he added, making reference to Van Allen's admission that she once stole a $20,000 (£10,000) diamond-studded watch belonging to Kelly from a hotel.
And addressing the 'split' within the family of the alleged victim, with relatives both confirming and denying she appears in the video, Adam Jr argued: "If this was really their daughter, if they saw what you just saw, we would not be having a trial.
"Any solid man in that family would have gone round there and broken his legs.
"How many of the family even came in here and said they confronted him? Zero."
He also continued to stress, despite forensic video evidence to the contrary, that while Kelly has a "significant" coin-sized mole on his back - going so far as to show the jury pictures of the singer's blemish - the man in the footage did not appear to have a mole.
State attorney Shauna Boliker was more succinct in her summing up, describing the case as "concrete".
"It is here and it [the video] has got him on it with that child.
"This is not a whodunnit. It is a he-did-it. He is the child pornographer," she added.
Kelly faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of some 14 counts of making and owning indecent images of children.
13/06/2008 09:16:20
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