By Heart of Illinois ABC

BLOOMINGTON – Court was brief on Tuesday, for the trial against Aaron Parlier. Parlier is accused of sexually assaulting his piano students.

The trial was for 19 of the 38 total counts against him.

The prosecution and defense delivered their closing statements, before that the defense asked for a mistrial due to a discovery violation.

Defense Lawyer Gal Pissetzky argued that a witness testimony contained evidence that the defense did not get.

The witness said they listened to hours of Parlier’s jail phone calls and because of that, they could identify Parlier’s voice in the evidence videos.

The judge denied the mistrial request because the calls themselves were not used as evidence.

In their closing arguments, prosecutors went over their case from the day before. They said they proved Parlier had more than 10 videos depicting child pornography and at least 30 separate penetrative acts.

Mclean County State’s Attorney Don Knapp said, “we will actually introduce more than ten separate and distinct videos depicting child pornography.”

The defense countered, saying many of the videos found on Parlier’s computer were the same video broken up.

They said the videos could not be seen as separate counts of child pornography.

They also argued that despite a witness testimony claiming the victim was under 18 and 13 in the videos. The timestamps on the videos were not reliable enough to guarantee the victim was under age 13.

Media coverage was limited in the court room due to the graphic nature of the the trial.

Parlier was given the opportunity to testify, but chose not to take the stand.

Judge Casey Costigan said he would take time to look at each charge individually and the verdict would be made on Friday.

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