Suffolk Superior Court Judge Thomas E. Connolly today declared a mistrial in the case against two men accused of gunning down 18-year-old Cedirick Steele after jurors deadlocked in their deliberations. Jurors deliberated for about five full days following four weeks of trial.

Suffolk prosecutors and attorneys for ANTWAN CARTER (D.O.B. 10/13/88) and DANIEL PINCKNEY, Jr. (D.O.B. 7/4/88), both of Boston’s South End, will return to court on April 20 to pick a new trial date. Prosecutors said they would re-try the case at the earliest opportunity.

Both defendants are charged with first-degree murder for their alleged roles in Steele’s fatal shooting on March 14, 2007, as the young man stood waiting for his mother across the street from a Boston middle school.

This is the second jury to reach an impasse in Carter and Pinckney’s case. By way of precedent, the trial of two men for a gruesome 2004 home invasion that left one dead and another maimed ended in first-degree murder convictions for both men after two hung juries.

Assistant District Attorney Paul Treseler tried the case. Kara Hayes was the victim-witness advocate. Carter was represented by attorney Barry Wilson and Pinckney by attorney James Greenberg.