CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Jurors began deliberations Tuesday to determine the fate of a man who accidentally shot his friend during a 2016 dinner party.

Steven Leannais, who had his license to carry a pistol for four months before the shooting, faces more than a decade in prison if he is convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the December 2016 killing of Anthony Stanford.

He is also charged with reckless homicide, using a weapon while intoxicated and aggravated assault.

The case boils down to three questions: whether Leannais was drunk at the time of the shooting, whether he was reckless or if his actions constitute negligent.

Prosecutors said in closing arguments that the 30-year-old made a series of reckless decisions that culminated when he pulled the trigger of the Glock pistol that he unloaded earlier in the night, and sent a bullet into Stanford's side.

Leannais took his loaded pistol out in the open while he was drinking Mountain Dew and Tito's vodka, left it out while his friends came over and, even though he unloaded it, left two magazine clips next to the gun as one of his friends, disbarred defense attorney and amateur movie maker John Frenden, used it to act out robberies and suicides.

Had Leannais taken an extra five seconds to make sure the gun was unloaded the second time he handled the gun, Stanford would still be alive, Assistant Cuyahoga Prosecutor Aqueelah Jordan said.

"His friend's life wasn't worth that extra five seconds," Jordan said.

Leannais's lawyer, Leif Christman, asked jurors to consider convicting Leannais of negligent homicide, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum of six months in jail.

Leannais broadcast more than an hour of the party on Facebook Live from an iPad in his kitchen. The video, which was played in court, showed the group drinking and Frenden horsing around with the gun.

Frenden kept messing with the gun on camera, and the video ended before the shooting happened.

Leannais later brought the gun back out, and that's when Stanford got shot. Leannais then told Frenden and Karmie to leave the apartment, and called 911.

An expert testified that Leannais' blood-alcohol level at the time of the shooting was likely between .09 and .15, which is above the legal limit to drive a car, but Leannais did not slur his words or show any other signs that he was drunk in his interviews with police after the shooting, Christman said.

Filiatraut said the law doesn't require someone to be "falling down drunk" to be legally under the influence of alcohol, and noted that Leannais told police he was "buzzed."

"Do we need someone to tell us that we shouldn't be drinking and messing around with guns?" He asked the jury.

Christman said he believed Frenden, whom he referred to in closing arguments as a "jackass" and an "asshole," reloaded the gun unbeknownst to Leannais before the bullet was fired.

The first thing Frenden did when he came into Leannais's apartment was grab a samurai sword and start swinging it around for the Facebook Live audience.

Then, after the shooting, Frenden sent Leannais a Facebook message telling him to delete the video. And the next day, Frenden used his invalid Ohio Bar Association number to sign into the Cleveland City Jail as an attorney to visit Leannais, where he said the two again discussed deleting the video.

But Filiatraut pointed out the irony in Christman and Leannais trying to lay the bulk of the blame on Frenden, because it was Leannais who gave Frenden access to a loaded weapon in the first place.

"[Leannais] trusted him to be around a weapon that can kill people," Filiatraut said.

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