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It’s now up to a jury to decide the legal fate of a man accused of fatally shooting bartender Dexter Bain during a botched robbery at a northeast pub more than four years ago.

The jury began deliberating shortly after noon on Wednesday after hearing final instructions from Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Sal LoVecchio on the second-degree murder charge against Kyle Victor Ledesma.

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Ledesma is suspected of shooting Bain twice in the back about 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 27, 2010, after he and another man burst into Our Place Pub Grill, 3709 26th Ave. N.E., in order to allegedly get the bartender’s drugs and laundered cash.

LoVecchio told the jury they could convict or acquit Ledesma of either second-degree murder or manslaughter, depending how they interpreted the evidence in the trial.

Crown prosecutor Grant Schorn said in his final argument that two confessions by Ledesma made surreptitiously to undercover police officers about the fatal, failed heist are the most compelling and accurate evidence of what happened.