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Bookmark or Share- Legal experts explain a hung jury and what comes next - WJLAIf a jury is hung the judge declares a mistrial, and it is up to the prosecutor to decide if he or she wants to retry the case, Marder explained. "We have an impasse, a deadlocked jury. The...
- What happens if there is a hung jury? - Fully Informed Jury AssociationWhen there are insufficient jurors voting one way or the other to deliver either a guilty or not guilty verdict, the jury is known as a “hung jury” or it might be said that jurors are “deadlocked”. The judge may direct them to deliberate further, usually no more than once or twice.
- Are Hung Juries a Problem? | National Institute of JusticeAn analysis of State court data found that the average hung jury rate was 6.2 percent, but with significant variations among jurisdictions. Neither demographic compositions of the populations nor community characteristics as crime rates were related to hung jury rates.
- Hung jury - WikipediaA 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.
- The Hung Jury: The American Jury™s InsightsandContemporaryUnderstanding*hung jury in their groundbreaking work, The American Jury.2 In this article, we review their conclusions about hung juries, and summarize contemporary work that builds on and further illuminates why juries hang.
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