John Edwards' lawyers abruptly ended his defense today without calling the former presidential candidate or the mistress with whom he carried on an affair. Lawyers for Edwards ended their case with a series of bank statements, phone records and Federal Election Commission memos and a final shot at the credibility of Edwards' primary accuser, Andrew Young. The courtroom had been braced for blockbuster testimony from Edwards' mistress, Edwards' daughter Cate, or Edwards himself. Cate Edwards, who has sat behind her father nearly every day of the trial, was not present today, although Edwards' elderly parents did attend. Hunter has not appeared at the trial either as a witness or a spectator, although the fact that she was on the list of potential witnesses would normally prevent her from attending the trial. The evidence presented by the defense contrasts starkly with the dramatic and often emotional testimony of presented by the prosecution detailing Edwards' attempt to keep his affair and the birth of their baby a secret, huge amounts of money spent to hide the affair, his distraught wife's discovery of the continuing fling, and the unhappy last days of Elizabeth Edwards. Edwards' lawyers put on a concise defense drawing the jury's attention to campaign finance laws and away from the steamy details of his affair. The defense called only seven witnesses compared to the prosecution's 24. The government took 14 days to present its case, while the defense used only three. Young, the prosecution's key witness, spent 20 hours on the stand, longer than it took the defense to present its entire case. "I was a bit stunned and I think the courtroom was stunned when the defense announced it was going to rest its case," said Kieran Shanahan, a former federal prosecutor watching the case. The defense did a good job redirecting the jury's attention to the campaign finance laws. And that's what the case is about. They've put the case in the position where they needed it to be to be able to argue it to the jury," Shanahan said. John Edwards Abruptly Rests His Case Edwards' lawyers wrapped their case with introducing a Federal Election Commission memo that found the nearly $1 million in donations used to hide Edwards' mistress and love child were not campaign contributions, according to documents his defense team filed late Tuesday. ABC News' Matthew Mendez contributed to this report