The jurors deciding the fate of the Urewera Four accused have retired for the night, after telling the trial judge they are having "some difficulty'' in reaching a decision on the charge of belonging to an organised criminal group.
Tame Iti, Urs Signer, Emily Bailey and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara are accused of being involved in military-style training camps.
They deny charges of possessing guns and belonging to an organised criminal group, with objectives including murder, arson and using guns against the police.
The 11 jurors resumed their deliberations this morning at the High Court at Auckland.
Justice Rodney Hansen told them that he had received two questions from them.
One of them expressed they were "some difficulty'' with the organised criminal group charge and asked whether they could move on to the firearms charges.
They retired shortly before midday on Thursday but did not resume on Friday after one of the jurors injured herself at home.
Justice Hansen told the jurors they could consider the charges in any order that they liked.
"If it were to be the case that you had been focusing on count one [of being a member of an organised criminal group] and hadn't at this stage commenced with the other counts in the indictment, you are perfectly at liberty to set count one aside and work through the remainder of the counts in the indictment.''
He said working through the other counts may help them to resolve any issues they had in relation to count one, the organised criminal group charge.
The jurors have photo booklets and more than 1300 pages of transcript of evidence to draw on during their deliberations.
They have also been told that they can review footage captured by covert police cameras in the Urewera bush.
THE CASE SO FAR
* 88 witnesses for the Crown were to be called, however after arrangements with the defence only about half appeared.
* Four witnesses were called for Tame Iti and three for Urs Signer.
* The trial was set down for three months but the jury retired towards the end of the fifth week.