"The general got a fair trial," Ms. Bowen said in closing arguments.

"They were intentionally set apart to be considered on their own," Mr. Prouty said in pretrial arguments this week.

"People are not she-bears," Scott Thorpe, a state prosecutor, said in closing arguments.

"They can manufacture evidence," Ms. Stewart said in closing arguments.

He denied the charges and his lawyer said in closing arguments that the Government's case was contrived.

"We submit there was nothing further we could do," Ms. Leoussis said in oral arguments in the case, which could be decided in this week.

He added: "These kinds of things are said on the street, between people or in arguments with others.

"Mental health issues had nothing to do with this crime," the prosecutor, Ric Ridgway, said in closing arguments.

"He hated his parents and he acted on that hatred," the prosecution said in final arguments this morning.