hung jury

noun

law

: a jury whose members cannot agree about what the verdict should be

The trial ended with a hung jury and the judge declared a mistrial.

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The original trial, which resulted in a hung jury, was the first one of its kind ever to be televised, laying the cultural groundwork for true crime as entertainment. —

Rachel Brodsky, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024 The first trial ended in a hung jury; the second ended in a conviction for murder. —

Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024 If deliberations result in a deadlocked, or hung jury, a judge then declares a mistrial. —

Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2024 The brothers’ first trial ended in a hung jury, and prosecutors secured a conviction in the second after much of the evidence of abuse was disallowed from the trial. —

Stefanie Dazio, Jaimie Ding, and Christopher Weber, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hung jury