Deadlocked Jury — Return for Deliberations (revised 2014) is a legal process in which 12 jurors must come to a unanimous verdict in a criminal trial. In the event that the jury is deadlocked, a judge may instruct them to keep deliberating in order to reach a verdict. This is known as a “return for deliberations” and is a commonly used tactic by judges in order to avoid the jury being discharged without a verdict. There are two types of “return for deliberations”: “Allen Charge” and “Dynamite Charge”. The Allen Charge is when the judge instructs the jury to re-examine their decisions in an effort to reach a unanimous verdict. The Dynamite Charge is when the judge tells the jurors that if they cannot come to a unanimous verdict, the case will be declared a mistrial. Both of these tactics are used to encourage the jury to reach a decision and avoid a mistrial.