Defence attorneys were raring to cross-examine Agriculture Minister Floyd Green on Monday in the murder trial of six cops, but were left peeved after prosecutor Kathy-Ann Pyke failed to wrap up her examination-in-chief which began on Friday.

Just before the lunch adjournment on Monday, trial Judge Sonia Bertram-Linton sought to confirm with defence attorneys whether they would be ready to cross-examine Green after the lunch break.

The attorneys responded in the affirmative.

Pyke said nothing at that point to indicate that her examination-in-chief was not complete.

After the lunch break, defence attorney Hugh Wildman was ready to cross-examine Green, but the court was taken by surprise when Pyke announced that she was not finished.

In her defence, Pyke said, “I never said I was finished. I never said that.”

Even the judge was taken by surprise.

“This one is surprising. We must have shifted universes or something,” Justice Bertram-Linton remarked.

Wildman sprang to his feet and said, “For the record, Milady, it is my time to cross-examine, having regard to what transpired before lunch. Miss Pyke never raised any objection that she was not finished with her examination-in-chief. It is surprising now she has come to say she is not finished.”

Following that back and forth, Pyke was given the nod to continue her examination-in-chief, asking Green to make markings on printed copies of pictures of the January 12, 2013 crime scene.

Pyke had, last Friday, started the process of showing the minister photographs for him to identify.

John Jacobs and Althea Grant-Coppin, alongside Wildman, form the team for the defence.

The minister will return to the witness stand today when Pyke is expected to complete her examination-in-chief. Thereafter Wildman, Jacobs and Grant-Coppin are expected to cross-examine Green.

The minister, who is one of two eyewitnesses in the case, was recalled as a witness last Friday to identify photographs related to the crime scene.

On trial for murder are Sergeant Simroy Mott, Corporal Donovan Fullerton, and constables Andrew Smith, Sheldon Richards, Orandy Rose, and Richard Lynch. Corporal Fullerton is also charged with making a false statement to the Independent Commission of Investigations.

The cops are charged with murder in relation to the shooting deaths of Matthew Lee, Mark Allen, and Ucliffe Dyer in an alleged shootout with the police on Acadia Drive in Barbican, St Andrew.