SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - After 10 hours of deliberations Wednesday, the jury in charge of deciding whether Emrah Bulatci will be convicted of first degree murder or manslaughter did not come to a conclusion. 

Emrah Bulatci is accused of first degree murder in the shooting death of RCMP Const. Christopher Worden.

Bulatci is accused of first degree murder in the shooting death of Const. Christopher Worden in Hay River two years ago.

It was day 18 of the trial.

The five women and seven men began deliberations following directions from Judge John Vertes in the morning.

They re-convened three times through the afternoon, emerging from the jury room in the courthouse looking haggard and tense.

The first time they wanted to review a videotaped re-enactment made in Hay River with one of the teenage girls who said she saw the shots fired.

They then asked for clarification of the definition of first degree murder and manslaughter.

The third time they asked for a transcript of Bulatci's testimony.

"The factual issue you're grappling with and which you have to grapple with is whether the last two shots were deliberate," said Vertes when the jury re-convened in the early evening. "If you have a doubt about the factual issue then obviously you have to give that benefit of the doubt to the accused."

"This is certainly not an easy area," he said. "It's not for lawyers or judges and certainly not for jurors."

Instead of adjourning for the night and going out for dinner at 6 p.m., the jury chose to have a meal delivered to the courthouse and pressed on.

At 9:30 p.m., the judge summoned them and suggested, "jurors, after a night's rest, they can approach it with a fresher mind."

The jury foreman agreed they wished to do so. The sequestered jurors retired to a hotel. They are expected to return to court at 9 a.m. Thursday.