CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Actress Winona Ryder can only wait in the wings now. The jury in her Saks Hollywood shoplifting trial resumes deliberations just about six and a half hours from now. The jury members received the case yesterday after closing arguments. Here's Eric Horng with more.</s>ERIC HORNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): "She came, she stole, she left," those words from prosecutor Ann Rundle as she described the events that led to Winona Ryder's arrest in December, 2001. Rundle in her closing argument showed jurors a portion of a Saks Fifth Avenue surveillance tape showing Ryder stuffing merchandise in a hat, actions Rundle said first caught the attention of Saks' security officials. Rundle said the actress, "Didn't look like a glamorous movie star. She looked like someone perhaps preparing to shoplift." Charging Ryder came to the store prepared with scissors and several empty bags, items she called burglary tools. Rundle also recounted the testimony of one Saks' employee, who said she was Ryder in a fitting room cutting security tags from merchandise, as well as the testimony of three prosecution witnesses, who said they heard Ryder apologize and say she was doing research for a role as a shoplifter. During the defense's closing statement, Attorney Mark Geragos said the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Geragos suggested Ryder was targeted because she's a celebrity and alleged over zealous security officials decided to lie and manufacture evidence after the store's surveillance tape failed to show the actress doing anything illegal. Geragos questioned why the cut security tags were never entered into evidence until the preliminary hearing months after the arrest and why the tags were never mentioned in incident reports written the day of and day after the arrest. (on camera): Eric Horng, CNN, Beverly Hills, California.
Winona Ryder Can Only Wait in the Wings Now