Jury deliberations are underway in the trial of a Garnerville man accused of strangling his girlfriend.

Nixon Bourguignon is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Shannon Coleman. He claimed that he was under the influence of the sleep aid Ambien when he strangled Coleman in their Garnerville apartment in May 2014.

In his closing argument, defense attorney David Goldstein said Bourguignon killed Nelson with his hands but not his mind, because of the sleep aid.

Assistant District Attorney Dominic Crispino told the jury that there was no evidence Bourguignon was under the influence of Ambien.

The first day of deliberations consisted of a review of evidence and testimony from earlier in the trial. The jury spent about a half-hour listening to an interrogation of Bourguignon by a Haverstraw detective. In it, an apparently groggy Bourguignon spoke of how he and his girlfriend fought on the night she died. He made no mention of Ambien.

Bourguignon is charged with second-degree murder, but the jury can also consider manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.