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A 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 exact origin of the term ‚‚hung jury™™ to re- fer to a jury that is unable to arrive at a verdict is unclear to us. Apparently of Amer- ican origin, the usage of the word hung to refer to juries that cannot agree seems to match most closely to the meaning of the word hung as caught, stuck, or delayed.
29 maj 2020 · The Oxford English Dictionary lists the first printed reference to a hung jury in Edwin Bryant’s What I Saw in California (1848-49) in which he states: “The jury . . . were what is called ‘hung’; they could not agree . . .”
17 cze 2022 · A 1912 amendment allows for non-unanimous verdicts in civil cases. A hung jury is a mistrial and does not mean that the defendant cannot be tried again. A few years ago, a defendant was acquitted of murder charges in Cuyahoga County after two previous trials resulted in hung juries.
Using multiple approaches to explore the data, we learned what differentiates a hung jury from one that reaches a verdict. Consistent themes of weak evidence, problematic deliberations, and jurors’ perception of unfairness arose in the hung jury cases. These themes structure and inform the proposals we suggest for addressing hung juries.
12 cze 2024 · A hung jury is when the people on the jury can't agree on if someone is guilty or not guilty in a trial. It can happen in criminal cases (where someone is accused of a crime) or civil cases (where people argue over rights or money).
In this paper, we offer two interrelated explanations for this fact: informational cascades and the heterogeneity of jurors. The 12-person jury is a timeworn institution; a staple of novels, stage, and cinema; and well established in the common-law tradition, the his-torical tendrils of which extend from the medieval courts of England.
