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Closing arguments today in the jerry sandusky child sex abuse case. the defense rested yesterday without calling sandusky to the stand, but there's a fascinating backstory about why not. nbc's ron allen is live in pennsylvania. talk about what's happening today. could the jury get the case today? >> reporter: yes, very soon, chris, probably some time after the lunch break, early this afternoon. we are in closing arguments now. the defense is about to begin making their case. we think they could go on for an hour or more, really not sure. remember, everything about this trial has preceded at li...

Probably didn't testify in his own defense. we understand that his son was here at the courthouse, prepared to testify, that he had conta contacted the prosecutors after being silent throughout this entire case. he apparently witnessed something, he may have been a victim himself, we are not sure but yes, that is one reason we believe sandusky did not take the witness stand. imagine the spec trouble, sitting there, being cross-examined by prosecutors and going through each detail of the allegations of the ten now young men about what happened over those ten years of alleged abuse. clearly that...

To perhaps continue as we go through closing arguments and into the deliberations beginning this afternoon. thomas? >> nbc's ron allen in bellefonte, pennsylvania. ron, thanks so much. joining me here in studio is criminal defense attorney, former federal prosecutor, jay fahey. great to have you here. as ron was pointing out and we were talking about in break this seems like it has gone by at a lightning pace they have been able to get this far and the fact the jury could be handed this case by lunch time. the judge though throwing out two of the counts relating to a i kaiser around victim num...

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