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Hung Jury

• When an insufficient number of jurors are able to agree on a verdict, a judge may encourage them to deliberate further by issuing an Allen charge. If they remain unable to reach a verdict, eventually the judge will dismiss them without a verdict having been reached. Such a jury is known as a hung jury.
  
  See also deadlocked.

 

 

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