A UK man was acquitted of terrorism charges after delivering his own closing argument:
The devil exists amongst those who deliberately starve children to death because they rationalise that those children will only grow up to be terrorists. It exists among those who bomb tent encampments and literally burn children and their parents alive. It exists amongst those who call Palestinians “human animals” the same phrase used by Himmler, the head of the SS about Jewish children in a speech on October 4, 1943 to senior SS Generals.
https://greghadfield.medium.com/tony-greenstein-the-most-important-half-hour-of-my-life-d03f7877a492
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That was a long speech, I don't know how the jury followed all of it.
But as someone with the freedom to read it at my leisure at home - I love it. He picked a brilliant set of historical references and focused right on the key points: vague wording of the law used to prosecute him, uneven enforcement of that law, and laughable justification for his prosecution in particular.