the defense may be shooting for a hung jury and then free due to double jeopardy?
Dittoes on the hung jury remark.
The way I see this... Its the only way Z will avoid more prison time.
A person can be retried as many times as the prosecution wants to retry in the event of "hung juries" and it isn't double jeopardy.
I've long thought the state's goal was a hung jury. The prosecutor's case is so weak that it would have a hard time finding jurors who would have even a 10% chance of voting to convict; to actually score a conviction would be a one-in-a-million shot.
On the other hand, while getting a 6-0 vote for conviction would be a million-to-one shot, getting a hung jury would be much closer to an even-money proposition. Such a finding wouldn't be a "win", but would allow the prosecutor a chance to drain Zimmerman's defense funds even further and maybe force him to plea-bargain.
the defense may be shooting for a hung jury and then free due to double jeopardy?
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Does a hung jury get him off? Doesn’t it means the jury couldn’t reach an unanimous
decision which is required in this case. Thus a hung jury can result in a retrial should
the prosecution so choose but they sometimes don’t.
Am sure someone already replied, but double jeopardy only applies with a reached verdict.
Hung jury they can keep coming after you