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Jury Discharged Without Verdict In Middlesex
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Ask to be excused from jury service you have a serious illness or disability that prevents you from doing jury service. you're a full time carer of someone with an illness or disability. you're a new parent and will not be able to serve at any other time in the next 12 months.
If the jury can't reach a verdict (either guilty or not guilty), then the CPS prosecutor has to decide whether or not to hold another trial. This trial would have to start afresh, hearing all the evidence again, with a brand new jury.
When there are insufficient jurors voting one way or the other to deliver either a guilty or not guilty verdict, the jury is known as a “hung jury” or it might be said that jurors are “deadlocked”. The judge may direct them to deliberate further, usually no more than once or twice.
Jury service usually lasts up to 10 working days. If the trial is likely to last longer than 10 days, jury staff will let you know. If the trial is shorter than 10 days, you may be asked to be a juror on other trials. You'll usually need to be at court from 10am to pm Monday to Friday, but times can vary.
If a jury is discharged by the judge it means that the members were not able to come to a majority verdict on the case. VHS Fletchers Solicitors explains: "Where a case retains the original 12 jurors at least 10 must agree on the verdict.
In the UK, judges generally do not overrule jury decisions in criminal cases. A judge can set aside a jury's verdict in specific circumstances, such as when the verdict is deemed unsafe. In civil cases, judges have more authority to overturn jury decisions, especially in matters of law.
(1)Where in the course of a trial of any person for an offence on indictment any member of the jury dies or is discharged by the court whether as being through illness incapable of continuing to act or for any other reason, but the number of its members is not reduced below nine, the jury shall nevertheless (subject to ...
A jury cannot reach a verdict. a jury is discharged prior to the conclusion of their deliberations. magistrates cannot reach a verdict. the Court of Appeal quashes a conviction.