A Supreme Court jury is expected to consider a verdict today in the murder trial of Stanford Archibald.

Yesterday Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller continued her summing up in the marathon trial and is likely to conclude this morning.

Archibald, 39, formerly of Somerset, has denied killing Mr. Aaron Easton 18 years ago.

Mr. Easton's body was found in a pool of blood in the early hours of May 4, 1985 on Laffan Street in Pembroke.

The Acting Director of Public Prosecutions Kulandra Ratneser said the case is based on DNA and circumstantial evidence. He believes the murder was a robbery that went wrong.

Defence lawyer Mark Pettingill has maintained throughout the trial that evidence may have been mishandled, misplaced, tampered with, and or cross contaminated. This, he claimed, made the DNA evidence null and void.

Mrs. Justice Wade-Miller told jurors it was up to them to judge the facts regarding whether or not the samples of blood belonging to Archibald were mishandled.

She said they should discard the evidence about there being a third vial of Archibald's blood, as there was no corroborating evidence that pathologist Dr. Keith Cunningham had taken three vials of his blood.

Mrs. Justice Wade-Miller said the doctor had admitted that he may have taken three vials when he was under attack by the defence.

She ran through almost all of the prosecution witnesses and told jurors they needed to decided what was important.