A Palm Beach County jury ended several hours of deliberation without a verdict Wednesday in the case of a former Greenacres police officer accused of having sex multiple times with a woman without telling her he had HIV.

A short trial for Ervans Saintclair, 41, began and ended Wednesday in Circuit Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer’s courtroom, where the state’s star witness was Saintclair’s now 40-year-old former neighbor and lover. The judge sent jurors home after nearly three hours of deliberation — about as long as the testimony in the case, where the woman who had an on-and-off relationship with Saintclair was one of just three witnesses in the trial.

Jurors will resume deliberations at 9 a.m Thursday.

The woman, who The Palm Beach Post is not identifying by name, said she and Saintclair had unprotected sex throughout their relationship and at one point they were actively trying to have a child together. She said she only found out he had HIV when a detective called her.

In a subsequent phone call between the woman and Saintclair, which detectives recorded, Saintclair told her that he did not have HIV and that another woman had been going around telling people he was infected because he refused to pay a bill for her.

"If you did have it, would you tell me?" the alleged victim asked Saintclair.

"Absolutely," he responded. "If I did, I would have told you."

At the start of the trial Wednesday, defense attorney Ade Griffin said prosecutors couldn’t prove that Saintclair had HIV at the time he was with the alleged victim. Griffin also pointed out that the alleged victim had sex with Saintclair numerous times over the years and never contracted HIV.

Assistant State Attorney Brianna Coakley presented medical records from doctors who examined Saintclair as far back as 2007 and said they told him he was infected.

"What matters is what he knew and what he understood," Griffin said in her closing arguments, saying the medical records didn’t prove anything. "You can’t just go back and assume."

Coakley in her final words to jurors said the records, coupled with the alleged victim’s testimony, made it clear that Saintclair knew he had HIV and deliberately hid it from his lover. Coakley pointed out notes from one doctor, who did not testify in the case but in a medical report wrote that Saintclair was "tearful" when informed he was HIV-positive.

Another doctor’s note read by Coakley indicated that Saintclair told the medical staff he had come to see the doctor because he had HIV. An infectious disease doctor who did testify in the case said she treated Saintclair for several years until 2013. She said she always advises her HIV-infected patients to practice safe sex.

"You have to assume he knew what he was being treated for and what he was taking," Coakley said. "I don’t think the infectious disease doctor is talking to him about osteoporosis, or high cholesterol."

Saintclair found out he was HIV-positive when he had his pre-employment physical exam for the police department in 2007, an arrest report said.

Deputies started investigating Saintclair in 2013 after a woman said he told her he was HIV-positive only after they had had sex several times in 2007. That woman’s case couldn’t be prosecuted because the statute of limitations ran out, but deputies say she helped them find other women with whom Saintclair had more recently been involved.

The alleged victim in the current trial was one of those other women.

Coakley said authorities found five other alleged victims, but charged Saintclair separately in those cases. None of the others contracted HIV in their encounters, according to court records.