Jonathan Majors' Defense Team Rests Case in 1 Day, Actor Won't Testify in Assault Trial

Lawyers will make closing arguments in the case Thursday

After much speculation that Jonathan Majors would testify in his own misdemeanor assault trial, his defense team closed their case today without the Marvel actor taking the stand.

Majors is facing charges of assault in the third degree with intent to cause physical injury, assault in the third degree recklessly causing physical injury, aggravated harassment in the second degree and harassment in the second degree, in connection with an alleged fight between him and his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari that spilled onto the streets of Chinatown in March.

The actor, who has maintained his innocence from the beginning, faces up to a year behind bars if convicted of the charges.

Leaving the courtroom Wednesday afternoon, hand-in-hand with current girlfriend Meagan Good – who has attended the trial daily – Majors, carrying a gold-leafed Bible and binder of trial notes in the other hand, smiled briefly at reporters photographing the couple before exiting out a side door.

Over four days of testimony last week, Jabbari told the jury that her boyfriend of more than a year and a half had often slipped into easy “rage and aggression,” during their relationship, and that on March 25 they had gotten into a physical altercation, leading to his arrest.

Describing that night, Jabbari said after an evening out the couple was inside a hired car and heading back to the penthouse they shared when she claims she saw a text message from another woman on Majors’ phone.

She said she snatched the phone from his hands, and that in response, Majors allegedly twisted her right arm, and as she curled her body “just trying to protect myself,” she claimed she felt “a really hard blow against my head" that “took me aback.”

The following day, Jabbari went to the hospital and was treated for a hairline fracture to a bone in her middle finger and a cut to her ear.

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The prosecution’s twelfth and final witness left the stand Wednesday morning. Majors’ lawyers then launched a three-witness defense that ended at the close of the day, starting with Detective Ronnie Mejia, who arrested Jabbari in a counter-complaint alleging domestic abuse against the actor in October.

On the stand, the 10th precinct detective said that three months after the alleged incident, he had taken Majors’s counter-statement over a FaceTime call at his precinct because the actor was out of state at the time, allowing Majors’s defense lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, to write out the domestic incident report on his behalf (which is against NYPD protocol) because: “It was brought to my attention that this was an important case.”

Prosecutors have declined to prosecute Jabbari, and information regarding that arrest was precluded from trial, with the judge calling the particulars of the cross-filing “very unusual.”

The defense also called Dr. Tammy Weiner as an expert witness in emergency medicine to testify about Jabbari’s injuries, which the defense argues occurred in the hours after the couple’s fight– when Jabbari went to Loosie’s Nightclub with strangers who came upon her during the incident.

“I was just trying to suppress the sadness that I felt deeply in my heart,” Jabbari previously testified of the decision.

On the stand, Weiner, who never met with Jabbari and was not an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital, where Jabbari was treated in March, testified to inconsistencies with Jabbari’s claims and injuries, based on photographs and X-rays of the injuries. Among her assertions were that Jabbari’s bleeding ear should have bled more and that she would have expected swelling of a finger that had a ring on it– the latter of which was stricken from the record because the judge could not remember if there was testimony regarding Jabbari wearing a ring. (According to photographs in evidence and obtained by PEOPLE, Jabbari’s injured finger bore no ring, although she was wearing a ring on another finger in photographs later taken of her injury.)

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Not 40 minutes after prosecutors rested their case and the defense called their first witness, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office released evidence from the trial which had been closed to the public until Wednesday. Among the 17 trial exhibits released were text messages between the couple, in which Majors appears to admit to physically attacking Jabbari on another occasion that is not a part of this trial, as well as audio from Majors’s 911 call which led to his arrest.

Part of that 911 call was briefly played in court again Wednesday by Majors's defense, who brought his agent, Elan Ruspoli of WME to testify as their third and final witness.

Ruspoli, who said he got a call from Majors that March morning in which the actor told him he could not get inside his locked bedroom, where Grace was unconscious, said Majors called him with "fear, concern" in his voice, adding that the actor sounded "near the same" as he did in the 911 call.

The defense rested their case Wednesday afternoon, after the agent left the stand.

The assault trial, which started in late November will continue to a twelfth day Thursday with closing arguments from both sides, followed by deliberations among the six jurors selected to hear the misdemeanor case.

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