No verdict today in samurai sword trial

Jurors in Michael Burton's murder trial spent a full day deliberating today in West Valley Superior Court, but failed to reached a verdict by the end of the day.

The jury of eight women and four men is set to continue deliberating Monday morning.

Prosecutors accuse Burton, 48, of murdering his wife, Otilia Burton, with a samurai sword in July 2006 in the couple's Rancho Cucamonga home. The couple was in the midst of a bitter divorce.

When he testified in his own defense this week, Burton, a former Pasadena firefighter, told jurors that his wife of 13 years attacked him with a Taser and stabbed him in the chest before he stabbed her with the sword.

He also said he blacked out for a portion of the incident, and cannot remember attacking his wife with the sword. Otilia Burton, 35, suffered 10 stab wounds.