The jury acquitted the guy on the murder charge.
The judge failed to enter the verdict.
The court has green-lighted multiple trials based on a judge’s error, an error any judge could now make to justify a future retrial for any defendant the judge or The State doesn’t like.
The jury did not acquit. There is only one verdict for a trial that has been done when the jury has finished its deliberations. No such thing as an intermediate verdict. And since the jury hung on the third count, the trial was effectively over with a mistrial.
The only decision after that was the prosecutors, if he wanted to retry the case from the beginning with a new jury.