Hung jury

A hung jury is a jury whose required majority cannot reach or agree upon a unanimous verdict after an extended period of deliberation and is deadlocked with irreconcilable differences of opinion.

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In the United States, the result is a mistrial, and the case may be retried.

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In jurisdictions giving the litigants a choice of jury size (as between a six-person and twelve-person jury), defense counsel in both civil and criminal cases frequently opt for the larger number of jurors, the saying being "it takes only one to hang," and a hung jury being regarded as the next best thing to a defense verdict.

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Jury: A jury is a body of persons convened to render an impartial verdict (finding of fact) on a legal question officially submitted to them, or to set a penalty or judgement in a jury trial of a court of law....

Verdict: In law, a verdict is the judgment of a case before a court of law. The term literally means "to speak the truth" and is derived from Middle English verdit, from Anglo-Norman: a compound of ver ("true," from the Latin vērus) and dit ("speech," from the Latin dictum, the neuter form of dīcer...

Deliberation: This article refers to legal deliberation; for other meanings of the word refer to its ....

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