UPDATE FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Jury deliberations in the trial of a
man charged with killing a confidential police informant will go
into a third day.
There was still no verdict Wednesday after more than 20 hours of
deliberation over two days. The panel will resume deliberating
Thursday.
Twenty-four-year-old Deneilo Bradshaw is charged with
first-degree murder and robbery with a firearm in the shooting
death of 23-year-old Rachel Hoffman.
She was shot five times in secluded area of Tallahassee in May
2008 after police lost track of her.
Bradshaw's step brother-in-law, 27-year-old Andrea Green, is
scheduled for trial next October on the same charges. Both could
receive death sentences if convicted of murder.

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UPDATE 12.16.2009 8:55 p.m.

The jury has retired for the night and will be back in court Thursday morning at 9 a.m.

Jurors have been deliberating since 9:15 this morning. That's in addition to 9 1/2 hours of deliberations Tuesday.

WCTV will have more as it becomes available.

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UPDATED 12.16.09 5:05pm

Jurors have just asked for a dinner menu. They judge advised attorneys and folks waiting in the courtroom that it may be a good time to get something to eat as well.

Jurors have been deliberating since 9:15 this morning. That's in addition to 9 1/2 hours of deliberations Tuesday.

The families of both Rachel Hofman and Deneilo Bradshaw have been waiting in and around the courtroom all day for a verdict. Friends are beginning to wonder if the jury is going to be able to reach a verdict at all.

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UPDATED 12.16.09 2:55pm

Jurors have told the judge they are going stir crazy in the jury room and would like to take a break outside. One of the jurors wants to smoke.

Attorneys have no objection. The judge is allowing the jury to go outside under the supervision of a bailiff as long as they do not discuss the case and they are isolated from the general public.

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UPDATED 12.16.09 2:50pm

Attorneys have been summoned to the courthouse. The judge says jurors have another question.

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UPDATED 12.16.09 11:40am

The jury has been deliberating for more than 12 hours over two days in the robbery and murder trial of Deneilo Bradshaw.

Bradshaw is one of two men accused of killing Tallahassee Police informant Rachel Hoffman.

His attorneys argued Bradshaw was not the triggerman and never intended for this to happen.

Now the jury has the tough task of deciding whether Bradshaw is guilty of murder and if so, what type. The death penalty hangs in the balance.

Jurors spent the night at a local motel, sequestered without phones, computers or televisions.

They returned at 9 this morning and have been deliberating ever since.

Hoffman's parents, Bradshaw's parents and a bevy of press are waiting in the courtroom and in the halls outside.

Jurors have just requested lunch.
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Updated 9:21a.m 12-16

The second day of jury deliberations in the trial of Deneilo Bradshaw began Wednesday morning around 9.a.m.

Jurors were escorted to an undisclosed hotel around 10 o'clock Tuesday night after they did not reach a verdict.

The judge was able to answer one of the two questions jurors posed yesterday but told them they needed to rephrase the second question because he did not understand what they were asking.

We will continue to update this story with the latest information as soon as it becomes available.
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11:15 p.m UPDATE By: Heather Biance

The jury deliberated for roughly 9 1/2 hours Tuesday, but the six men and six women still had too many questions to give a unanimous verdict.

Once the clock hit 9:30, the state and the defense agreed to make the option of spending the night at a hotel available to the jury and they took it.

Leon County Deputies have escorted the jurors to an undisclosed location where they will sleep on it and come back at 9am Wednesday to continue nailing down their verdict.

Once they reconvene Wednesday morning, they are still faced with deciding if Bradshaw is guilty or not guilty.

And if he is guilty, will it be pre-meditated murder or felony murder.

The answer to that question, could ultimately mean the difference between life and death.

Earlier Tuesday afternoon, the defense argued that Deneilo Bradshaw never intended to kill Tallahassee Police informant Rachel Hoffman and put the blame 100% on co-defendant Andrea Green.

Prosecutors ultimately argued that it doesn't matter who pulled the trigger, both men are responsible for Hoffman's murder under Florida law.

We'll have complete coverage on eyewitness news and on wctv.tv.

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9:55 p.m. UPDATE

The jury has decided to retire for the night and will go to a hotel.

Court will begin again Wednesday at 9a.m.

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12.15.2009 9:35 p.m. UPDATE

The defense and prosecutors sent back a letter to the jury around 9:30 p.m. asking them if they'd like to go to the hotel for the night , sleep on it and come back at 9 a.m.

WCTV will have their response soon as it's available

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12.15.09 5:35pm UPDATE

Jurors continue to deliberate and have told the judge they are not ready to order dinner yet.

We have a crew in court and we'll let you know when jurors reach a verdict or are sequestered at a local motel.

Rachel Hoffman's smiling face flashed full screen in courtroom 3G and many gasped when prosecutors swapped it for a picture of her decomposing body in a ditch.

Deneilo Bradshaw could face the death penalty for it.

Prosecutors tried to convince the jury that this wasn't a drug sting gone bad, but a carefully plotted robbery that ended in murder. Why else they argued would Bradshaw walk away with a share of the cash.

"This defendant got this stack of money because he was in for a penny, he was in for a pound, he was in it from the get go," Prosecutor Frank Allman said.

Whether Bradshaw pulled the trigger,they say, is irrelevant. He set up the deal, stole the murder weapon and afterward bought bleach cleaned the car and spent some of the money.

"Two men are responsible for this and Deneilo Bradshaw is one of them," prosecutor Georgia Cappleman said.

"Green had just pumped five bullets into the body of Rachel Hoffman and Green was threatening Mr. Bradshaw with the same fate," defense attorney Clyde Taylor said.

Bradshaw's attorney tried to convince jurors that co-defendant Andrea Green acted alone in pulling the trigger and though Bradshaw did help to cover it up and spend the money afterward, it doesn't make him guilty of murder.

"All of those actions that occurred after they left Gardner Road had nothing to do with those horrific seconds that resulted in the death of Rachel Hoffman," Taylor said.

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12.15.09 3:18pm

Jurors wanted a dry erase board on which to write down some notes. The court administrator brought one to them.

The judge says if jurors come back with a first degree murder verdict the penalty phase will begin tomorrow.
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12.15.09 2:50pm UPDATE

Attorneys have been summoned back to courtroom 3G. We are told jurors have a question.

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12.15.09 12:33 pm UPDATE

The jury is now deliberating in the robbery and murder trial of Deneilo Bradshaw.

There are 6 men and 6 women on the jury. They will be sequestered until they reach a verdict. Two alternate jurors will also be sequestered in a separate location just in case they are needed.

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12.15.09 12:30pm UPDATE

Prosecutor Georgia Cappleman is now giving a rebuttal.

Rachel Hoffman is much more than "Rachel Red," Cappleman told the jury.

Hoffman "trusted the police to protect her and they failed her," Cappleman said. "She trusted Deneilo Bradshaw not to execute her," Cappleman told the jury. "She had no idea, not the foggiest, what kind of danger she was in," Cappleman said.

Green and Bradshaw probably couldn't believe their good fortune, Cappleman said. A lone young woman who doesn't own a gun planning to show up with $13,000 cash, she said.

"This was a crime of opportunity for Mr. Bradshaw," Cappleman said. Bradshaw set up the deal, stole the gun that was used to kill Hoffman and drove her car with her body in it from the murder scene.

"Two men are responsible for this and Deneilo Bradshaw is one of them," Cappleman said.

"Bradshaw is up to his eyeballs in this," Cappleman said.
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12.15.09 11:45am UPDATE

"If you have a reasonable doubt, you should find the defendant not guilty," Taylor said.

In those horrific moments on Gardner Road, two to six minutes, Taylor said, Andrea Green acted independently and fired the five shots that killed Rachel Hoffman.

"Was it a plan or was it a scheme of Mr. Bradshaw?" Taylor asked the jury. No, he said it was an act which "Mr. Bradshaw did not intend to occur, in which Mr, Bradshaw did not participate," he said.

Taylor pointed out that it was Green, not Bradshaw, who had blood on his shoes, had Hoffman's id cards in his pocket and offered to pay a family member to dispose of Hoffman's car.

"Who seemed to be doing all the talking? Who seemed to be running the show?" Taylor asked the jury.

"That does not mean what Mr. Bradshaw did was right," Taylor said, but Bradshaw's actions after the murder don't have anything to do with those horrible moments on Gardner Road, he said.

Taylor said that the meeting among Hoffman, Bradshaw and Green was not a premeditated robbery, as prosecutors suggested.

Taylor reminded the jury that Hoffman's first attempt at being an informant for TPD failed when she told her friend that she was setting him up. Taylor asked the jury if it was unreasonable to imagine that Hoffman may have told Green and Bradshaw the same thing when she met them on Gardner Road and Green responded with gunfire.

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12.15.09 11:05am UPDATE

Prosecutor Frank Allman has finished his closing argument and defense attorney Clyde Taylor has begun.

"Green had the gun, Green had just pumped five bullets into the body of Rachel Hoffman" and was threatening Deneilo Bradshaw with the same gun, Taylor told the jury.

Bradshaw had to make a decision looking down the barrel of a gun, Taylor said.
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12.15.09 10:55am UPDATE

Prosecutor Frank Allman claimed that "this wasn't a drug deal, this was a robbery" from the very beginning.

Allman contends that is why Bradshaw changed the location from busy Forest Meadows Recreation Center to isolated Gardner Road at the last minute.

If Bradshaw wasn't involved in the robbery, Allman asked, why did he get a share of the money?

"He was in for a penny, he was in for a pound, he was in it from the get go," Allman said.

Allman said the two "gallivanted across the state" together after the robbery, freely spent some of the stolen money, and Bradshaw even had sex with his girlfriend in Orlando the same night.

"Time and time again he (Bradshaw) has the opportunity to get away and time and time again he chooses to stay," Allman said. An innocent man gets away and tells someone, he doesn't later sing a song about money, Allman said.

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12.15.09 10:35am UPDATE

"Yo dude, what up?" Rachel Hoffman's voice echoed through the courtroom as prosecutors again played a tape recording of a meeting between Hoffman and Bradshaw two days before the murder.

"You should have came to see me," Bradshaw said on the tape after Hoffman told him that Andrea Green stood her up on a previous drug deal.

"I'm a little girl, be nice to me," Hoffman told Bradshaw on the tape. "I'm a little Jewish girl, I need to be safe," she said as she asked him to get a "pretty" gun for her.

"He's more than willing to help," Allman told the jury afterward and showed them the murder weapon, "a chrome one, a pretty one," he said.

That conversation is what ultimately led to Hoffman's murder, Allman said. Bradshaw stole the murder weapon from a customer's car day that, he said, and so is a principal in the crime.

It's the defendant who supplies the gun. He bought bleach afterward to destroy the evidence and helped to wipe down the car, Allman told the jury.

"It stretches common sense beyond the breaking point to suggest that Deneilo Bradshaw is just an innocent bystander," Allman argued.
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12.15.09 10am UPDATE

Prosecutor Frank Allman told the jury that "we're never going to know" who pulled the trigger in this case, but both Deneilo Bradshaw and Andrea Green are responsible for the murder of Rachel Hoffman.

Allman says even if Hoffman was selling a million dollars worth of marijuana out of her apartment, which he said sounded "incredible," it doesn't matter.

Allman says the fact that all five shots were fired by the same gun is important. He says two shots to her torso were fired from her right side and the shots to her head were fired from the left. Allman said that proves the shooter walked around from the passenger side of the car to the driver side before firing the last three shots.

"That shows premeditation, reflection," Allman argued.

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12.15.09 9:55am UPDATE

Prosecutors have begun their closing arguments.

The judge has ordered bailiffs to lock the doors to prevent anyone from coming or going and distracting the jury.

Rachel Hoffman's parents are in court as well as a few of Hoffman's friends. On the other side of the aisle are Deneilo Bradshaw's parents and fiance.

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12.15.09 9:30am UPDATE

The judge has called a brief recess and said closing arguments should begin in about 15 minutes. Attorneys estimate those arguments could take three to four hours.

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12.15.09 9:10am

Judge Mark Walker is giving the jury some instructions before attorneys begin their closing arguments.

Deneilo Bradshaw is accused of robbery and first degree murder in the May 2008 death of Tallahassee Police informant Rachel Hoffman.

The jury can also consider some lesser charges.

Walker is explaining the differences among first degree premeditated murder, first degree felony murder, second degree murder and manslaughter.

Florida law allows someone to be convicted of first degree murder even if he did not physically pull the trigger.

Walker also instructed the jury about the laws on independent acts because Bradshaw's attorneys argued that co-defendant Andrea Green made the sole decision to murder Hoffman.

Green is not slated to go on trial until next fall.