A jury will begin its second week of deliberations on Monday after failing to reach a verdict at the trial of Keli Lane, who is accused of murdering her baby.
Before sending the Sydney jury of six women and six men home on Friday, Justice Anthony Whealy told them to have a break over the weekend and put the matter out of their minds.
The NSW Supreme Court judge said they could then return refreshed on Monday to continue their deliberations.
The 35-year-old former water polo champion has pleaded not guilty to murdering two-day old Tegan Lane on September 14, 1996 after they left Auburn hospital.
She also has denied three counts of making a false statement on oath in relation to documents dealing with her adopting out two other babies.
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Lane told police she handed Tegan over to a man she first named as Andrew Morris, then Andrew Norris, who she said was the infant's father.
She said she had a brief and secret affair with him.
But the crown claims he is a fictitious person and that Lane murdered Tegan as she did not want the responsibility of raising a child.
Lane's defence has said that she should be acquitted as it cannot even be proven that the alleged victim is dead, nor, if she is, how she died.
