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Britney Spears' jury is doing its best to make up for lost time.

While it took 14 months—a very long 14 months—for the singer's trial on misdemeanor driving without a license to reach a courtroom, it took barely two days of testimony before jurors entered deliberations.

The eight-woman, four-man panel is currently pondering the pop star's fate.

At stake is whether the 26-year-old will be slapped with a criminal charge as a result of her August 2007 ding-and-run, at which time she was in possession of a Louisiana, though not California, driver's license.

Spears, who has been MIA throughout the proceedings, might have to put in face time in the court if she's convicted.

"Her lawyer can stand in for the sentencing hearing, but the judge might want it all done on the record," Alec Rose, a Santa Monica criminal defense attorney, tells E! News.

The maximum sentence is six months in jail and a $1,000 fine—not to mention the knowledge that a much less costly solution, which included zero time behind bars, without the embarrassment of a public trial could have been, had Spears accepted prosecutors' plea deal earlier this month.

Rose, who's not involved in the case, doesn't expect much of a penalty even if the singer is found guilty.

"No one gets sentenced jail time" in these kind of cases, says Rose. "She would probably only have to pay a fine of a few hundred dollars and be on one to three years of summary probation."

Three witnesses, including Spears' father, Jamie, testified before Friday morning's closing statements.

For his part, Jamie did his best to justify her out-of-state license and play down the fact that his daughter had tied the knot and twice given birth in the Golden State, saying her real home was and will again be Louisiana.

Britney's ex-boyfriend could find himself behind bars

Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib could find himself behind bars if he tried to sell the s*x tape featuring him and the singer.

The paparazzi photographer, who dated Britney during her public meltdown, had offered the tape for sale inviting the highest bid and was trying to sell it to Internet's pay-per-view po rn websites for 5.6million pounds.

Meanwhile, the singer has decided to fight back and her lawyers have filed a lawsuit claiming that Britney was mentally instable when the video was shot.

The 2-hour long tape was allegedly shot while the duo was holidaying in Mexico earlier this year - around the same time when Britney was struggling with depression, drug addiction and nervous breakdowns.

The singer had landed in hospital psychiatric wards twice after a string of public meltdowns and had also lost custody of her children control of her finances before being filmed with Ghalib.

"Brit's attorneys will argue that she was coerced into being filmed having s*x with Ghalib while the balance of her mind was disturbed," the Daily Star quoted a family source as saying.

The source said: "Every shred of evidence supports this.

"The whole world watched earlier this year as she was strapped on to a gurney and carted off to a mental ward."

The 35-year old Brummie, who, according to pals, has been struggling financially since being ditched by Britney, could face up to ten years behind bars if he were to break the injunction.

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