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In the summary jury trial, either the verdict returned will be a "split the difference" type decision, in which the parties will have been given an outline of a settlement, or the verdict will cause one party to worry about its chances at trial. In that event, that party is likely to be much more receptive to settlement offers from the other side.
The existence of a circuit split is one of the factors that the Supreme Court of the United States considers when deciding whether to grant review of a case. [2] Some scholars suggest that the Supreme Court is more likely to grant review of a case to resolve a circuit split than for any other reason. [3]
[7] [39] During the 1898 Louisiana constitutional convention, the Louisiana legislature ratified the split verdict law, making it possible to convict defendants on a jury verdict of 9–3. [10] This, in turn, created more convicts (especially freed blacks), and thus increased the numbers available for for-profit convict leasing. [7]
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If the earlier trial is a fraud, double jeopardy will not prohibit a new trial because the party acquitted has prevented themselves from being placed into jeopardy to begin with. One such case is the trial of Harry Aleman, who was tried and acquitted in 1977 in Cook County, Illinois for the September 1972 death of William Logan. Nearly 20 years ...
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