Closing Arguments End in New Jersey "Fat Defense" Trial
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) -- Jurors in New Jersey could get the case of the Florida man who claims he was too fat to kill by late Thursday.
Lawyers finished closing statements Wednesday.
Edward Ates' lawyer told jurors all they have to do is look at his client to see he's obese, old, and in no condition to have killed his former son-in-law.
Prosecutors agreed Ates can't run a marathon. But they said he was still capable of methodically planning and executing the killing of Paul Duncsak in 2006.
The son-in-law was embroiled in a bitter custody dispute after divorcing Ates' daughter.
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