FOG BLOG U.S. NEWS LOG: CLOSING ARGUMENTS AND NOW JURY DELIBERATION IN CHAUVIN TRIAL:

Jury deliberations begin Monday in the Chauvin trial. Key questions, answered.....Prosecutors and the defense will offer competing visions of Derek Chauvin's role in George Floyd's death during closing arguments Monday in the former Minneapolis officer's criminal trial. They started at 10 a.m. ET.

The closing arguments come after prosecutors called 38 witnesses to testify, including police use-of-force experts who criticized Chauvin and medical experts who explained how Floyd died. The defense called seven witnesses of its own — but not Chauvin himself, as he invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify. AT THIS TIME , THE JURORS WERE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS BY THE JUDGE AND WILL NOW GO INTO DELIBERATIONS AND WILL COME BACK WITH A SOLID VERDICT REGARDING DEREK CHAUVIN'S GUILT.