The trial for the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins is nearly complete with a jury set to begin its deliberations.
Bruce Lehrmann is facing a criminal trial in the ACT Supreme Court, charged with sexual intercourse without consent.
He has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Ms Higgins alleges Lehrmann raped her inside a ministerial office in Parliament House after a night out drinking with colleagues, but he denies the pair ever had sex.
Chief Justice Lucy McCallum told the jury they must act impartially, without emotion or prejudice and give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in the courtroom.
"You are not answerable to popular opinion ... whichever way you may think it sways," she said on Wednesday.
"Your verdict, whether it be guilty or not guilty, must be unanimous."
She reminded jurors of the importance of the presumption of Lehrmann's innocence and that it was up to the prosecution to prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
Lehrmann exercised his right to silence and did not enter the witness box during the trial. Instead the jury was played his police interview.
Chief Justice McCallum said his decision not to give evidence in court could not be used as an admission of guilt and did not strengthen the prosecution's case.
Earlier, Lehrmann's defence lawyer Steven Whybrow completed his closing argument, telling the jury Ms Higgins had 325,000 reasons to push ahead with her rape accusation.
He was referencing a $325,000 book deal Ms Higgins was offered after giving two media interviews about her rape allegation in 2021.
Mr Whybrow said the $325,000 question in the case was whether the jury could accept beyond a reasonable doubt that Lehrmann sexually assaulted Ms Higgins in a ministerial office.
He told the jury there were very few statements Ms Higgins presented as facts that have not been demonstrated to be suspect in the trial.
He said there was no DNA evidence or medical complaints to support Ms Higgins' version of events, but instead "contemporaneous lies" about visiting a doctor.
Mr Whybrow said if Ms Higgins had convinced herself that she had been raped her emotional demeanour in the witness box may be genuine.
"She has reconstructed events to the point that she now genuinely believes they are true. That doesn't mean they are true," he said on Wednesday.
Mr Whybrow used an example of a photograph of a bruise Ms Higgins said she took after the alleged assault.
He said there was no evidence that bruise had anything to do with that night.
"She's been caught out. Other people have come along and checked ... and there's no evidence of this," he said.
Prosecutor Shane Drumgold on Tuesday said Ms Higgins had been a credible and honest witness whose version of events that night had not wavered.
Meanwhile, he said Lehrmann had given inconsistent accounts about his reasons for being at parliament on the night of the alleged assault to the security guards, to his boss and to the police.
Mr Drumgold also said after the alleged rape Ms Higgins was caught in the middle of "strong political forces".
"We say she was right to be scared, she was right to be cautious and she was right to move slowly and carefully," he said.
But Mr Whybrow told the jury on Wednesday that, other than Ms Higgins, no other witnesses had given evidence about "political forces" at play.
Four jurors from the pool of 16 will need to be excused before deliberations begin. Additional jurors were selected in anticipation some would drop out during the trial.
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