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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...
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    In law, a verdict is the formal finding of fact made by a jury on matters or questions submitted to the jury by a judge. In a bench trial, the judge's...
    8 KB (1,083 words) - 00:43, 16 January 2024
  • Not proven (redirect from Scottish verdict)
    eventually displaced "not proven" as the primary verdict of acquittal. Nowadays, juries can return a verdict of either "not guilty" or "not proven", with...
    17 KB (2,203 words) - 01:23, 14 March 2024
  • The open verdict is an option open to a coroner's jury at an inquest in the legal system of England and Wales. The verdict means the jury confirms the...
    9 KB (1,218 words) - 11:34, 17 December 2023
  • prejudices in favor of the defendant. Such verdicts are possible because a jury has an absolute right to return any verdict it chooses. Nullification is not an...
    56 KB (6,799 words) - 02:10, 25 May 2024
  • have already decided that the boy is guilty, and that they plan to return their verdict quickly, without taking time for discussion. His vote annoys the...
    4 KB (433 words) - 08:45, 9 April 2024
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    unless the court orders otherwise. A jury can return a majority verdict in a civil case. The government can issue a judge-only trial order under the Hong...
    99 KB (13,448 words) - 04:00, 29 May 2024
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    a judge in England or in Wales is not entitled to direct, or instruct, order or require, a jury to return a verdict of guilty. Mr Cheong Wang was a Chinese...
    6 KB (579 words) - 12:27, 2 April 2023
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    can return a verdict of "lawful killing", "unlawful killing", or an "open verdict"; though inquests cannot apportion blame, in the case of a verdict of...
    59 KB (8,366 words) - 06:24, 26 May 2024
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    ensure a guilty verdict and settle the law on necessity once and for all. He would invite, in robust terms, the jury to return a special verdict, stating...
    39 KB (5,348 words) - 11:54, 27 May 2024
  • law, Irish law and Northern Irish law, unlawful killing is a verdict that can be returned by an inquest in England and Wales and Ireland when someone...
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    must return a verdict of "not guilty". If the defendant is found guilty, he will receive a mandatory death sentence via the electric chair. The verdict must...
    41 KB (4,279 words) - 15:35, 10 May 2024
  • parent chain (as if RETURN was used), or the base chain policy, which is an ultimate fate, is used. Targets also return a verdict like ACCEPT (NAT modules...
    10 KB (1,231 words) - 13:03, 22 January 2024
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    allowing the jury to return a verdict that the defendant was guilty, but insane at the time, and should be kept in custody as a "criminal lunatic". This...
    3 KB (296 words) - 23:24, 30 January 2024
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    inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing of all of the victims. In the United Kingdom either a firearms certificate (FAC) or a shotgun certificate...
    48 KB (4,337 words) - 10:02, 18 March 2024
  • escapee with a history of violence and rape, was arrested. However, Hart was acquitted in March 1979 after a jury unanimously returned a verdict of not guilty...
    16 KB (1,743 words) - 23:22, 12 May 2024
  • A partial verdict occurs when a judge permits a jury to return verdicts on fewer than all of the counts it has to decide, though it has not yet determined...
    924 bytes (119 words) - 16:44, 22 November 2021
  • judge should instead have said to the jury simply that before they can return a verdict of guilty, they "must be sure that the defendant is guilty". The principle...
    20 KB (2,553 words) - 20:55, 9 May 2024
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    A jury is a sworn body of people (jurors) convened to hear evidence, make findings of fact, and render an impartial verdict officially submitted to them...
    114 KB (15,796 words) - 15:16, 29 May 2024
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    counsels' closing addresses and a summing up by Judge Owen, the jury retired and returned after just ten minutes to return a verdict of guilty on the charge of...
    69 KB (9,550 words) - 16:33, 22 May 2024
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