Talisa Siganto

He accused them of trying to hide it.

Mr Edwards said all of this was more than enough for jurors to be able to find.

There was plenty of doubt.

Well, it was thorough, as they always are.

There was a lot to get through, as you say, in terms of summarising the evidence and explaining how they were to consider it.

The judge also spoke about the note and he spoke about Tara's immunity and they were warned that they do need to scrutinise things in a certain way.

So they were left with a lot to discuss in that jury room.

Yeah, pretty soon after they retired to deliberate, it was within a couple of hours they came back with their first note.

They asked the judge, what do we do if we can't come to a unanimous decision?

So they were clearly already having a challenging time.

The judge said it was unusual for them to have come back so early to say this.

Yeah.

He wasn't prepared at that point to give what is known as a black direction.

He did a good job of explaining to them, you know, this was a very long trial and they had a lot of evidence to sift through.

And it was very likely that they'd hit fatigue points.

You know, we have to remember they had two days, two full days of closing arguments.

Then on top of that, the judge's directions changed.

And then of course the five weeks of evidence and, you know, 60 plus witnesses.

So he sent them home for the night, which I'm sure they were, they were glad to, they were glad to be having a rest.

And then they were back again for another day of deliberations.