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Legal experts have said they do not envy the seven women and five men on the David Bain trial jury as they decide his fate.
The jury will be analysing a huge amount of information, having heard from more than 180 witnesses during the three month trial.
Canterbury University law lecturer Dr Chris Gallivan told Breakfast it is a particularly stressful case for them to decide.
"They will be well aware that the eye of New Zealand is upon them and I think they will acutely feel the pressure," he says. "I certainly wouldn't like to be on the jury myself."
While the jury deliberates, they are virtually cut off from the outside world, with no access to newspapers, television, radio and communication devices such as mobile phones.
Gallivan says this is not unusual, however, "because of the close scrutiny that the media and the public have given [the case], the judge has gone perhaps an extra length in order to ensure the jury are left alone and are uninhibited in their deliberations".
Queen's Counsel Nigel Hampton says there are three possible outcomes out of the deliberations - guilty, not guilty or a hung jury. He says if there is a hung jury, the Crown is likely to push for another retrial.
"This jury has the burden of deciding one of this country's most high profile cases," Hampton says.
"I don't envy them at all."
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