Puisne Justice Norma Wade Miller told jurors they are sure to be weighing the Lagoon Park murder trial this morning, four months to the day that they were first empanelled.

The marathon trial has seen some 43 days of testimony since the ten woman, two man jury was chosen on November 10, with dozens of witnesses testifying and many dramatic moments.

Mrs. Justice Wade Miller continued her summation ? which began shortly after 11 a.m. on Monday ? and promised jurors that after she reviews the testimony on the stand of defendant Robert Blair Tucker, jurors will be allowed to "retire to consider your verdicts".

Tucker, 35, of Astwood Close, Pembroke, James Alan (Spook) Dill, 57, of no fixed abode, and Terranz (Monster) Smith, 34, of Main Road, Sandys, deny killing Edward Stanley Lee, an American involved in drug importation with the trio ? in Lagoon Park, Ireland Island South, on July 28, 2001.

Conscious of the difficulty of listening to hours of her summation, Mrs. Justice Wade Miller three times inquired of jurors if they wanted a break or adjourned for a short period after noting closed eyes in the jury box.

And Mrs. Justice Wade Miller revealed to jurors for the first time that a knife in a butcher's block taken from Tucker's home broke when it was dropped when being handed by a witness to the Court clerk.

She added: "One of the witnesses was handling it and it dropped. From my vantage point I saw it fall. I don't know if any of you saw it break.

"But I ask that you disregard that there is now a second knife not in its slot. You should not draw any averse inferences that the knife broke. I have asked that the newly broken knife be put in an envelope."

If the length of Mrs. Justice Wade Miller's summations for Dill's and Smith's testimony are any indication, the jury could have the case before 11 a.m.