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A hung jury, also called a deadlocked jury, is a judicial jury that cannot agree upon a verdict after extended deliberation and is unable to reach the required unanimity or supermajority. A hung jury may result in the case being tried again. This situation can occur only in common law legal systems.
Legalese is practically its own language and sometimes you need a lawyer or a legal dictionary to decipher the meaning of legal terms. ... hung jury") then a mistrial results, as in the case of ...
Allen v. United States, 164 U.S. 492 (1896), was a United States Supreme Court case that, among other things, approved the use of a jury instruction intended to prevent a hung jury by encouraging jurors in the minority to reconsider. The Court affirmed Alexander Allen's murder conviction, having vacated his two prior convictions for the same crime.
In the 1794 case Georgia v.Brailsford, the Supreme Court directly tried a common law case before a jury.The facts in the case were not in dispute, and the legal opinion of the court was unanimous, but the Court was nonetheless obligated under the Seventh Amendment to refer the matter to the jury for a general verdict.
If jury deadlocks, defendant in Samantha Woll murder trial could go free - or face another trial. If Samantha Woll murder trial ends in hung jury, here's what that means Skip to main content
A hung jury, and a declaration of a mistrial, would become a real possibility. The political contours… If that indecision continues for several days, it will open up one of the more politically ...
Jury nullification, also known in the United Kingdom as jury equity, [1] [2] or a perverse verdict, [3] [4] is when the jury in a criminal trial gives a verdict of not guilty even though they think a defendant has broken the law. The jury's reasons may include the belief that the law itself is unjust, [5] [6] that the prosecutor has misapplied ...
The jurors in the Karen Read case told the judge on Friday that they can't agree. Judge Beverly Cannone told them to keep deliberating.