The jury on the Luke Tipene murder trial has reached a stalemate and been discharged by the judge.

Vincent Skeen has spent the last two weeks on trial in the High Court at Auckland after he killed 17-year-old rugby league rising star on November 1 last year.

A jury of six men and six women deliberated for more than a day and a half before informing Justice Mark Woolford they could not come to a unanimous or majority agreement.