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Hung Jury - Time For The Dynamite Charge?

Hung Jury - Time For The Dynamite Charge?

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Ralph Cipriano
Jun 20, 2012
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This guest post is by Beasley Firm attorney Max Kennerly, who regularly blogs at Litigation & Trial.

Eleven days into deliberations, the jury has told Judge Sarmina that they're hung on all but one of the counts. Now what?

That doesn't mean it's over, because the Court can still give what's informally known as a "dynamite" charge and try to move the jury …

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