I sat on a jury for a murder trial that was something like this. The defendant claimed self defense. The local authorities didn’t have enough evidence to prosecute it, so the state stepped in. Nothing the prosecution presented gave reasonable doubt that it wasn’t self defense. At the end of the trial the prosecution brought in a lot of unsubstantiated nonsense to persuade jurors, and it worked. It was a hopelessly hung jury.
“It was a hopelessly hung jury.”
Was that person re-tried?