PROVIDENCE — There was no verdict in ex-Lincoln Town Administrator Jonathan F. Oster’s bribery and conspiracy trial yesterday.

After its first full day of deliberations, the eight-woman, four-man jury adjourned around 4 p.m. and was scheduled to resume its review this morning.

Oster is facing two counts of bribery and two counts of conspiracy to commit bribery in connection with events that occurred during his 2000-2002 term as the town’s top elected official. The state has charged that Oster and ex-political ally and then-Planning Board member Robert R. Picerno twice schemed to extort bribes from potential buyers of a 6-acre piece of town-controlled land on Route 116 called the H&H Screw property.

Picerno pleaded no contest in 2004 to four counts of taking, or trying to solicit, bribes, and three counts of conspiracy to solicit bribes.

Oster and his wife, along with a few friends, spent virtually the entire day in the courtroom. Defense lawyers C. Leonard O’Brien and Tamara Barney were also there for most of the day. Assistant Attorneys General Bethany Macktaz and William Ferland, who prosecuted the case, were also intermittent visitors.

Shortly before noon yesterday the jury advised the trial judge, Associate Justice Gilbert V. Indeglia, that it wanted to hear testimony of one of the purported targets of the bribery scheme, Lincoln car dealer Robert Campellone. Indeglia asked the jury to specify which parts of Campellone’s testimony it was interested in, but the jury continued deliberating without following up.

The deliberations were a bit liberating for the jurors, only identified by numbers and the towns they come from. Until closing arguments, the pool of 15 — a 16th left earlier in the trial for health reasons — filed silently and stone-faced in and out of the courtroom every day, sitting in exactly the same seats for the entire trial.

But as the deliberation phase began, when they entered the courtroom at the beginning and the end of the day, they have been free to sit in the seats they want, and their demeanor has been more open, though with no signal on how they are progressing toward a verdict.

The three week trial — four if you count the jury selection process — saw 21 witnesses take the stand and around 100 documents and recordings were entered as exhibits.

jhill@projo.com