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A PORT OF SPAIN JURY is expected to deliver its verdict in a multimillion-dollar marijuana cultivation case on January 8.

Justice Nalini Singh is expected to sum up the case to the jury before they are allowed to retire to deliberate on their verdict.

Before the court is Duane Caldon, of Mundo Nuevo, who was charged on September 26, 2011, with the cultivation of 18,000 fully grown marijuana plants and approximately 3,200 seedlings. The prosecution alleged that the plants occupied an area equivalent to about four lots of land in a forested area off Mendoza Road, Mundo Nuevo, Talparo.