Jurors at Harvey Weinstein’s New York City rape trial are set to resume deliberations on Monday after signaling they are at odds on the top charges in the closely watched #MeToo case.

The jury sent a note to Judge James Burke at the end of a fourth day of deliberations on Friday, asking if it was permissible to be hung on one or both counts of predatory sexual assault against the disgraced movie mogul while reaching a unanimous verdict on lesser charges.

The judge ordered the jury to try to reach a consensus, but the query still sparked speculation that the trial could end with a partial verdict by the end of Monday or else lurch forward with no clear end in sight.

Previous notes suggested that jurors were focused on a key aspect of both predatory sexual assault counts – the Sopranos actor Annabella Sciorra’s allegations that Weinstein attacked her in the mid-1990s.

The jury must factor in Sciorra’s account, along with the accusations that Weinstein raped an aspiring actor in March 2013 and forced oral sex on former film and TV production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006, to find him guilty of predatory sexual assault.

The Guardian is not naming the actor in the alleged 2013 incident, as she has not indicated publicly that she wishes to be named.

A guilty verdict on just one of those two predatory sexual assault charges would probably send Weinstein to prison for the rest of his life. Weinstein has maintained any sexual encounters were consensual.