Jury deliberations continued this week in the Seth Cravens trial following a dramatic closing argument Monday by his attorney who got within five inches of the prosecutor’s face and yelled an obscenity while pretending to be slain surfer Emery Kauanui Jr. Attorney Mary Ellen Attridge called the prosecutor’s murder case “a runaway train” in which she asked that Cravens, 22, be acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the May 28, 2007, death of Kauanui in front of his mother’s home in La Jolla. “Choo, choo!” concluded Attridge. Attridge claimed Kauanui was “not some docile victim” and instead was the aggressor, citing the testimony of Matthew Yanke, 22, who told jurors last week that Kauanui stepped up to Cravens and yelled at him within five inches of Cravens’ face. “How the (expletive), how the (expletive), how the (expletive) did you come over to my house?” Attridge screamed to Deputy District Attorney Sophia Roach. Roach froze and gave no reaction to the outburst. She rose and told jurors in a rebuttal argument that “insulting words are not a defense.” Roach told jurors Yanke lied about the exchange between Cravens and Kauanui and that Cravens was the aggressor, not Kauanui. Yanke didn’t say Kauanui yelled the expletive three times as Attridge had illustrated. Roach urged the nine-man, three-woman jury to compare Yanke’s testimony to that of other witnesses, such as the victim’s neighbors who called police and Kauanui’s girlfriend, Jennifer Grosso. She said Grosso was “a courageous, courageous young woman” who was “the only person to try and stop the attack” at the scene by Cravens and four others around 1:30 a.m. on May 24, 2007. “There is no self-defense here. Seth comes at him at a pace, delivers a punch that knocks Emery out before he hits the ground,” argued Roach. “He hits the ground with a sickening thud.” Both sides agree that Kauanui’s head hitting the pavement caused brain damage that led to his death four days later. Roach said that Kauanui’s “brain was shaken,” causing it to bleed and fracture. She said surgeons cut his skull open to allow for swelling, but that didn’t save him. Roach quoted a witness as saying Cravens had laughed about Kauanui’s injury before he died, saying he “put him to sleep” in the hospital. The jury deliberated 3 1/2 hours Monday before going home; the jury and court had Tuesday off for Veterans Day. An early verdict wasn’t expected because jurors also must decide nine other charges involving previous assaults to other people, some going back several years. Cravens has remained in county jail in lieu of $1.5 million bail since his arrest in May of 2007.