Verdict unlikely today in Al Potter murder trial

It's unlikely the 12-person jury deliberating in Al Potter's first-degree murder trial will return with a verdict by Wednesday,

Justice Garrett Handrigan instructed the jury on Tuesday afternoon, before sequestering them around 1 p.m. to start their deliberations.

Later that afternoon, the jury requested to listen back to some of what Potter said when he took the stand in his defence during the course of two days last week.

However, they were told they would have to listen to his testimony in its entirety.

The jury deliberatesthe case at Supreme Court duringthe day and are taken to a hotel at night. Theyare not allowed to discuss the case with anyone aside from when all 12 of them are together in a room.

The jury sat in the courtroom for a monthhearing evidence against Potter, including DNA evidence analysis, an elaborate undercover RCMP sting, and testimony from two fellow Vikings motorcycle club members turned police-paidagents.

Potter took the stand for two days during the four-week trial, admitting to the stabbing but claiming self-defence.

Porter, 39, was found with 17 stab wounds, four cuts and bruising, at the bottom of his driveway in North River, Conception Bay North, in the early morning of June 29, 2014.

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