The jury in the terrorism trial of al Qaida spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghayth went home Tuesday without reaching a verdict.

After being charged on the law by Southern District Judge Lewis Kaplan (See Profile), the jury began its deliberations just before noon Tuesday. At 4:30 p.m., faced with the option to continue deliberating, the jury instead sent a note to Kaplan, reporting “we are all tired and mentally exhausted and want to break for the day.”