Sentences with phrase «hung jury»

Had one single person hung the jury, it is likely that his case would have been abandoned by prosecutors given the change in the law.

The vote ended in hung jury.

Nine were acquitted, six had their cases severed and two wound up with hung juries.

Even if hung jury conduct, the prosecution is required to retry and prove its case.

He was acquitted on 5, hung jury on one, and guilty on 2 (one involving a horse).

The trial of Michael Slager, the officer who shot the unarmed Scott last year, ended in a hung jury yesterday.

John had been indicted and tried for first - degree murder, but the trial resulted in a hung jury.

There's no «beyond a resonable doubt» — perhaps a hung jury?

Preliminary hearings ensued, and dismissals of charges, and trials and mistrials and retrials, and an acquittal, and two hung juries, and defections and elections of district attorneys, and the McMartin defense team carried on, until the list of defendants had dwindled to one, young Raymond Buckey, a surfer dude who had not seen the sun in years, whose charges were finally dismissed in 1990.

The expression comes from the term «hung jury,» when jurors can not decide on a verdict and a retrial is needed.

Menendez's first corruption trial ended in a hung jury last fall.

Pulver agreed to a prosecution motion for separate retrials for LoPorto and Democratic Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough after their joint trial, which ran for nine weeks, ended in a hung jury and mistrial March 13.

The first trial ended in a hung jury.

Also consider the possibility that a failure in the Senate would be the equivalent of a hung jury, not a positive show of innocence.

The jurors in the Seabrook trial are divided, raising the possibility of a hung jury.

While Hugin Led Celgene, Its PAC Donated Heavily to Menendez Likely Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bob Hugin says he's «embarrassed» by Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, whose corruption trial ended late last year with a hung jury.

The trial on bribery charges against Kelly ended in a hung jury, but he plans to plead guilty to revised charges soon.

He paused at the microphone for a while before thanking God for the hung jury, which was unable to come to a verdict on each of the 18 counts of corruption charges.

Rechnitz testified last year against former correction - officers - union chief Norman Seabrook, whose corruption trial ended in a hung jury.

When, after a hung jury, Simmonds declined a plea deal that would have freed Warner, the men went on trial a second time.

When a trial ends with a hung jury, the case has to be retried before a new jury, starting from the beginning.

If the jury can not reach a verdict, the court will declare a mistrial, which is sometimes called a «hung jury.»

Obtained dismissal of drug trafficking charges against client by obtaining a hung jury and persuading the government to decline to retry the case.

His first trial ended in a hung jury.

The trial resulted in a hung jury, and the case was settled favorably before the second trial.

In 2015, a mistrial was declared following a hung jury in a separate trial for a single count of second degree murder.

We don't want a hung jury.»

Some mistrials, like ones caused by a hung jury, allow a second trial.

Ralske writes, «Ali G also expresses his confusion over the meaning of the term, «hung jury.»»

Tried a double wrongful death case on behalf of a road builder to a hung jury in a county that had not had a defense verdict in a civil case in 20 years.

While the facts were not in dispute, the trial judge found that since he did not go through with his threats to hand out circulars or hang a jury, he did not actually commit the offence of obstructing justice.

(Believe me, the client considered the hung jury a win.)

He then wrote to the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Sheriff's office, letting them know that he was a racist who intended to hang a jury (in the legal sense, not by way of a threat of physically hanging the jury members).

Anthony Barnaby, meanwhile, was indicted and tried on three occasions, with each trial ending in a hung jury.

The case against Wilkins was weak, the trial ended with a hung jury, and the district attorney eventually declined to retry the case.

After a hung jury in the death penalty, the prosecution decided not to retry Wilkins and another defendant, and both were set free.

[2] Mr. Triffon is charged with attempting to «obstruct or pervert or defeat the course of justice in a judicial proceeding by threatening to use his vote, position and influence as a jury member to cause a «hung jury» irrespective of the evidence at trial.»

Each brother's trial resulted in a hung jury (i.e., no unanimous verdict was reached) because jurors would not abandon their opposing positions.

The trial resulted in a hung jury, and the case was settled favorably before the re-trial.

That case ended in a hung jury.»

Also hugely important is the fact that in Scotland, jurors decide a case by majority vote (like a civil trial in the U.S.); hence, there are no hung juries and they don't need a consensus.

The person knows that the evidence fell short, but their conscience can't reconcile letting the person go free, so they will vote guilty to hang the jury, almost ensuring the prosecution gets another shot.

These would likely be hung juries in the U.S..

Then, you will often get a «hold out» juror, and since the U.S. requires a unanimous verdict, the hold out hangs the jury.

Further, the hung jury cost tax payers millions of dollars in the U.S., and this is often the side effect of people not wanting there to be absolutely no recognition of the fact that the accused probably committed (especially serious) crime (s).

Since Scotland doesn't have the hung jury because there is no consensus required they use the «not proven» in the same way a U.S. jury uses the hung jury when one or more jurors thinks the prosecution didn't prove their case but it's fairly clear the defendant is, in fact guilty.