The jury of nine women and three men were given three options — find Molly and Thomas Martens guilty of second-degree murder, find the two guilty of voluntary manslaughter, or find them not guilty of anything.

The jury in the Jason Corbett murder trial resumes its deliberations later today.

The sister of Irish businessman Jason Corbett testified that her brother told her several times, starting a year before he died, that he wanted to move back to Ireland.

No fingerprints were found on the 28in Louisville Slugger baseball bat used to hit Irish businessman Jason Corbett multiple times in the head in the early hours of August 2, 2015, a forensic analyst with the North Carolina State Crime Lab testified yesterday.

Prosecutors in the high-profile US trial of Molly Martens and her father Thomas Martens over the murder of her Irish husband are expected to make their opening argument on Monday, now that the week-long jury selection process has come to a conclusion.