No quick verdict in Nevada Bundy ranch standoff trial

(Updating with no verdict Monday)

LAS VEGAS (AP) – A jury has ended a full day of deliberations without a verdict in the federal trial of six men who had assault-style weapons during a standoff that stopped government agents from rounding up cattle near Cliven Bundy’s ranch in April 2014.

Officials said late Monday the U.S. District Court jury of eight women and four men will return to work Tuesday.

Each defendant faces 10 charges, including threatening and assaulting a federal officer, obstruction, extortion, weapon violations and conspiracy.

Each could face more than 50 years in prison if he’s found guilty of crimes of violence, and more than 100 years on all charges.

No shots were fired in the standoff near Bunkerville.

It was seen as a victory by states’ rights advocates in an ongoing battle over federal control of vast rangelands in the West.

Prosecutors cast the standoff as a crime of violence that stopped agents from carrying out lawful court orders to impound Bundy cattle.

Defense attorneys say their clients exercised constitutional rights to protest and bear arms.