If the jury can’t make a decision after a certain number of days (I don’t know how many exactly, I think it’s the judge’s call), then the judge declares a mistrial. A mistrial means they start over. The whole trial is done again with a new jury.
In my experience this plays out with you feeling the pressure of avoiding being the annoying person who is holding up this whole thing and wasting everyone’s time. So that aspects does motivate a jury to come to a unanimous decision. Jurors privately vote a couple times a day on what they think. In my case, the vote was almost unanimous for 2nd degree murder by the end of the first day, so it didn’t take too long to get it to 100%
The trial was way less dramatic then TV / movies. The lawyers make very detailed explanations and repeat arguments in different words to emphasize their points. All of this makes the moment to moment action pretty dull.
upquark / Julien
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2023-08-05 07:33:46
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