JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — After three days of going through 150 potential jurors to select for two separate juries and an additional six days of listening to 21 witnesses testify, the double-jury murder trial for Marcel Johnson and Kentrevious Garard is coming to an end.

Both defendants and the state rested their cases late Tuesday night, and by Wednesday afternoon, jurors for each man began deliberating their verdicts.

Judge Jeb Branham kept jurors at the courthouse until about 8 p.m. Tuesday to listen to all legal counsel rest their cases. Once all sides concluded for the evening, jurors were excused; legal counsel was required to stay longer to review jury instructions with the judge.

On Wednesday morning, Branham began court by presenting those instructions to the 24 jurors.

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