BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The jury weighing Winona Ryder's fate on shoplifting charges ended its first day of deliberations without a verdict Tuesday.

The six-man, six-woman group spent five hours mulling the 45 pieces of evidence, including two closed-circuit videotapes of Ryder shopping at the Beverly Hills Saks Fifth Avenue and a pair of orange-handled scissors she is alleged to have used to cut security tags from merchandise.

Ryder, 31, is accused of pilfering $5,560.40 worth of clothing and accessories from the store on Dec. 12, 2001.  She pleaded not guilty to charges of burglary, grand theft and vandalism, and is free on $20,000 bail.

She faces up to three years in prison if convicted, but few expect the doe-eyed actress to be sentenced to more than probation.

Throughout the six-day trial, Ryder, whose acting credits range from the quirky ("Beetlejuice," "Edward Scissorhands") to the critically acclaimed ("The Age of Innocence," "Girl, Interrupted"), showed jurors her Hollywood charm, furrowing her brow, rolling her eyes, and shaking her head at many of the arguments made by prosecutor Ann Rundle.

Rundle called Ryder's alleged shoplifting spree a "simple case of theft," asking jurors to piece together a pattern of theft complete with a trail of discarded security tags she claimed the actress snipped off clothing.

One thing that jurors may be carefully pondering is the videotapes, each 90 minutes long, showing Ryder selecting items and ducking into dressing rooms as she moves through the store.  The tapes, shot from multiple cameras embedded in the ceiling of the department store, do not show her cutting off sensor tags, but store guards picked up in their testimony where the tapes left off. 

Colleen Rainey, one of the guards, testified that she looked through the slats of a dressing room door to see Ryder on her knees, struggling to work the orange pair of scissors around the fabric anchoring the security tags, which normally require a special tool to remove.

Ryder's attorney, talk show fixture Mark Geragos, alleged in his closing argument that Rainey took part in an elaborate corporate conspiracy by Saks' executives to shield themselves against a civil suit from the actress.  The lawyer has maintained that Ryder intended to leave her credit card account "open" and is the victim of overzealous security guards willing to obtain a conviction at any cost, even fabricating evidence.

Hoping to alleviate a crush of media that has filled the courtroom each day, Superior Court Judge Elden Fox, who has staunchly opposed efforts by the media to access documents and exhibits in the trial, acquiesced, allowing one pool camera in for the verdict. 

Fox's decision to keep juror questionnaires (including that of Guber) sealed until the end of the trial was rebuffed by the state Court of Appeals, which ordered him to release the documents by the end of the day Thursday.

Jurors were expected to begin deliberating Wednesday at about 9:30 a.m.