[wideawake]

She was prosecuted for a number of charges. The jury decided that she was not guilty of 1st degree murder, but they couldn't agree if she was guilty of voluntary manslaughter or not.

This was a retrial only on the charges that the jury couldn't decide on.

[djf]

Well, let's face it. If she was tried for anything, it should have been manslaughter. Heat of the moment kind of thing, diminished capacity.

I don't understand how it can come out of a grand jury to indict her on multiple counts for the same offense... and without Grand Jury approval, the prosecution should be stuck twiddling his thumbs.

The whole deadlocked jury/mistrial thingy is a MISUNDERSTANDING of the intent. And I've read alot of it.
They wanted to insure that UNLESS THERE WAS A UNANIMOUS verdict, then no crime had been committed. A cultural sort of thing, if the folks themselves could not even agree that what the person did was a crime, the government was powerless to prosecute.

It's not supposed to be a "give the government unlimited shots at getting a conviction" thing.