Jury deliberations began Thursday in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to bomb two U.S. Embassies in Africa in August 1998.
Jurors began studying evidence in the four-month trial after U.S. District Judge Leonard Sand completed his reading of 50 pages of instructions on the law in the case.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers finished six days of closing arguments Wednesday. The jurors then worked on the case for an hour before suspending deliberations for the night.
Before leaving court, the jury notified the judge it wants to examine 19 exhibits, including grand jury testimony of one defendant and clothing belonging to another. Prosecutors have said the clothes tested positive for explosives.
The trial began 21/2 years after the bombings of embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
Prosecutors want the jury to find the defendants guilty of conspiracy for participating in a decadelong plot led by Saudi millionaire and fugitive Osama bin Laden, also charged in the case and believed to be hiding in Afghanistan.
