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To: Ken H

In criminal matters:

12 votes to convict = conviction.

12 votes to acquit = acquital.

Anything in between is a hung jury.

[Unless you are in Florida and have a 6 person jury then 12 above becomes 6.]


309 posted on 05/25/2006 7:34:39 PM PDT by JLS
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To: JLS; Ken H

And if a Hung Jury (not 12 to convict or aquit) ..

The prosecutor can try them again.


310 posted on 05/25/2006 7:35:57 PM PDT by Mike Nifong (Any likeness to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental)
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