apparently different reactions to pressure.

New Yorker Jacqueline Martells claims she broke down throughout questioning after she was arrested for importation and conspiracy to import a controlled drug.

But Crown Counsel Mr. Brian Calhoun, prosecuting, is claiming that he had tested Martells during cross examination and it caused a different reaction in front of the jury.

Martells, 22, was arrested in a Bermudian guest house after Police say they discovered links between her and Robin Young, a 19-year-old Bermudian who is accused of importation, conspiracy to import, handling and possession of cocaine.

Young, 19, of Boundary Terrace, Devonshire, was stopped by Customs officers at Bermuda Airport on Sunday, February 9 and the cocaine was found in the bottom of a bag she was carrying. Martells was arrested the following Wednesday.

Earlier in the week Martells told the court that she had been sent to Bermuda to collect money and send it back to the US, by her boyfriend's cousin, a man called Tony.

She claims that during evidence given to narcotics officer Det. Con. Kimberley Vickers she was so upset that she could hardly read it back. She claims the Police officer had misunderstood some of her statement because she had slipped back into her native Jamaican dialect when she became upset.

Her lawyer, Mr. Khamisi Tokunbo said: "We maintain the only thing Jacqueline Martells agreed to do was to take a trip, with expenses paid, and send money back.

"She did not know if the money was to be drug money. It may well have been, but she did not know.'' Concerning the statements to the Police, Mr. Tokunbo said: "When people are in stressful situations they do say strange things. It can be a frightening thing to be in the claws of law enforcement.

"Both the defendants have done their best to try and explain what happened in their own clumsy way. You cannot convict them for having an unsatisfactory answer every now and then.'' He said that the prosecution evidence relied on the two statements which he said were filled with assumptions.

But Mr. Calhoun claimed that he had earlier put Martells in a similar situation to the Police interview, while she was in the dock, and received a different reaction.

He said: "I was saying will the real Jacqueline Martells stand up and show herself to the jury.

"How did she react? Jacqueline Martells appeared to be timid and had to speak up to the back of the jury. Or did we see a Jacqueline Martells who wouldn't take anything from anybody?'' Mr. Calhoun continued by suggesting that Martells had been sent to Bermuda to be the "eyes and ears'' of the conspiracy.

He told the jury: "So if somebody does get stopped on their way to meet someone outside the airport, the other person can warn whoever is waiting.'' Although Martells has denied knowing Robin Young throughout the case, Mr.

Calhoun said that she knew what she looked like and probably saw her being stopped at Customs.

Earlier he had said that Mr. Tokunbo had introduced evidence to act as a smokescreen to cause doubts in the minds of jurors.

Mr. Calhoun will finish his closing speech on Monday followed by Mr. Archie Warner who is defending Young.

Puisne Judge the Hon. Mrs. Justice Wade, presiding, said she expects to send the jury out on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court trial was supposed to close early this week but has doubled in length because of days lost to legal submissions and arguments.