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PARIS – An Oxford County jury ended its second day of deliberations Monday without reaching a verdict in the trial of a Maine guide charged with illegal hunting of bear and deer.

The jury met for six hours Monday and was unable to reach agreement on all 29 hunting violations against Lawrence Perry, 56, of Fryeburg. The 12-member panel will resume deliberations at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

On Thursday, after meeting for three hours, the jury had reached agreement on some of the charges by the end of the day. But Perry’s lawyer, William Maselli, declined Judge Ellen Gorman’s offer to have those verdicts read to the court.

Gorman was in Auburn on Friday, so the case was carried over to Monday.

The case followed an undercover operation by the Maine Warden Service in which an undercover game warden hired Perry to take him bear hunting, then stayed at his house off and on throughout the 2003 hunting season.

Perry faces a total of 11 charges originating in bear season – four charges of hunting bear with more than four dogs, four charges of knowingly assisting a client to violate hunting laws, two closed-season violations and one charge of possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle.

Perry is accused of 18 charges stemming from deer season – one closed-season violation, six charges of having a loaded firearm in a vehicle, three night hunting violations and five driving deer violations, and one violation each of not wearing hunter orange, hunting does without a permit and illegal possession of deer.

Perry faces a possible sentence of six months and several thousands of dollars in fines if convicted on half of the violations. He was one of 13 hunters summonsed or arrested in the sting operation, and is the only person who has taken his case to trial.

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