New York ? Jurors in the Martha Stewart case ended their first day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict on whether the founder of a gracious-living empire lied about a well-timed stock sale.

Deliberations were to resume today.

The jury received the case after 90 minutes of complex instructions from U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum.

After about two hours of deliberation, the jury of eight women and four men requested a reading of testimony regarding former brokerage assistant Douglas Faneuil, the government’s star witness. Jurors also asked to see charts detailing phone calls of the main players in the case on the day of the stock sale.

Later in the day, jurors also asked to see several pieces of evidence, including what the government claimed was a doctored worksheet used to make a supposed stock sale agreement appear legitimate.

The combined charges against Stewart carry up to 20 years in prison, but she would probably get far less under federal sentencing guidelines.

However, if convicted on any charge, the 62-year-old Stewart would have to step down as chief creative officer of her media company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

Stewart and ex-stockbroker Bacanovic are accused of lying to investigators about why Stewart sold 3,928 shares of ImClone stock on Dec. 27, 2001, just before it plunged on a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to reject ImClone’s application for a cancer drug.

Prosecutors contend Stewart sold her stock after Bacanovic tipped her off through Faneuil.

Martha Stewart leaves federal court on the first day of trial deliberations. The jurors did not reach a verdict Wednesday, and will resume deliberations today.