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"Attorneys in the Mike Hubbard ethics trial are delivering their final arguments to the jury Thursday afternoon.\u00A0Closing arguments began around 3 p.m. at the Lee County Justice Center in Opelika.Hubbard faced more grilling about his consulting contracts as testimony drew to a close earlier Thursday.\u00A0Hubbard faces 23 charges of using his political position for personal profit.He was asked again Thursday morning about his vote on a general fund budget that could have benefited a pharmacy cooperative for which he consulted.Hubbard said he was not clear whether his vote was a conflict of interest when he voted. He also said it would look strange if the House speaker did not vote on the state's general fund budget.Senate President Pro Tem Del Marsh also took the stand as a rebuttal witness for the prosecution.Hubbard testified earlier that picking his printing company for state GOP work was a group decision. \u00A0Marsh said that even though he was the party finance chair, he did not play a role in that choice.\u00A0The jury could begin deliberations in the case by Friday morning.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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