[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The prosecution rested its case-in-chief on Tuesday morning after 11 days of testimony from 38 witnesses
- All eyes are now on Derek Chauvin's defense attorney Eric Nelson
- Nelson is expected to present a much more succinct case for his acquittal based on the assertion that Floyd's death was caused by his drug use and underlying health problems, not the police restraint
- It remains unclear whether Chauvin will be called as a witness in his own defense
- The defense opened on Tuesday with video from Floyd's arrest on May 6, 2019
- Nelson sought to show that Floyd had a history of feigning medical distress and swallowing drugs when approached by police
- On Monday Judge Peter Cahill told jurors to expect to hear closing statements at the start of next week
- The third week of Chauvin's trial kicked off amid protests over the police shooting of a black man in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center
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