Since noon, Judge Richard D. Taylor Jr. has been in his chambers trying to decide whether to allow the jury to consider convicting Dandridge of first-degree murder.

At 1:45 p.m., he called all six attorneys into his chambers, and Richmond Sheriff’s Capt. Roger Moss just announced that court will reconvene at 3:15.

The jury still has not heard closing arguments,

A conviction of capital murder carries only two possible sentences—life in prison without parole or the death penalty. A conviction of first-degree murder carries up to life in prison.

The defense has argued that Dandridge should not be eligible for a capital murder conviction because they say he has not been proven to be the “immediate perpetrator” of the Tucker/Baskerville deaths.