Since 1927 South Australia has permitted majority verdicts of 11: 1, and 10: 1 or 9: 1 where the jury has been reduced, in criminal trials if a unanimous verdict cannot be reached in four hours.

It is not necessary that a jury be unanimous in its verdict.

In a criminal case, a verdict need not be unanimous where there are not fewer than eleven jurors if ten of them agree on a verdict after considering the case for a " reasonable time ".

In the past a unanimous verdict was required.

Following the English tradition, US juries have usually been composed of 12 jurors, and the jury's verdict has usually been required to be unanimous.

In the United States ( both then and now ), a verdict in most criminal trials by jury must be unanimous.

The rest of the film's focus is the jury's difficulty in reaching a unanimous verdict.

Typically, a jury must come to a unanimous decision before delivering a verdict ; however, there are exceptions.

The unanimous verdict was for Paul to relinquish his position as bishop.

The Judges were so astonished at the verdict of the jury that they had to repeat their question before they would believe their ears, but the public which crowded the judgment hall, on the announcement of the verdict, broke out into cheers so loud and long as, according to the unanimous testimony of contemporary reporters, had never before been heard in the Guildhall.

A jury also typically provides its opinion only as an aggregate and jurors have the right not to reveal whether they found someone ' guilty ' in cases where a unanimous verdict is not required.

In September 1947 C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter about stories for children: " I have tried one myself but it was, by the unanimous verdict of my friends, so bad that I destroyed it.

Nevertheless, the jury returned a unanimous verdict of suicide against Sellis.

In a trial the court comprises four assessors, two lay and two clerical, who are the sole finders of fact, and their verdict must be unanimous.

If the unanimous verdict of seven judges dissipated any public doubts, the reiterated protestations of the condemned man brought them to life again.

Eleven members of the jury, aiming at a unanimous verdict of " guilty ", try to get it over with as quickly as possible.

A unanimous verdict is needed is order to convict a defendant of a capital crime and sentence to death.

Under the Scottish legal system, the jury need not return a unanimous verdict ; a majority verdict may also be used.

On November 21 of 2006 a mistrial was declared due to a hung jury, which was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

Responding to a juror's note stating that "... at this point we are at an impasse and do not believe that we will be able to reach a unanimous verdict ...", U. S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth told the jurors to resume deliberations.

After a ten-week trial, a civil jury returned a unanimous verdict that Samuel Sheppard had failed to prove his father had been wrongfully imprisoned.

The Declaration of Independence refers to " unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America " adopted by the " Representatives of the united States of America " on July 4, 1776.

This group was outcast by the unanimous vote of all the Khojas assembled in Bombay.

The Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, chaired by Balfour, drew up the document preparatory to its unanimous approval by the imperial premiers on November 15, 1926.

In the case of an amendment related to the Office of the Queen, the use of either official language ( subject to section 43 ), the amending formula itself, or the composition of the Supreme Court, the amendment must be adopted by unanimous consent of all the provinces in accordance with section 41.

* 1989 – Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran complete their trilogy of boxing fights nine years after their first two fights, at the opening of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada ; Leonard retains his WBC world Super Middleweight title by a 12 round unanimous decision.

At the end of the conference, the church " by a unanimous vote " agreed to accept the compilation as " the doctrine and covenants of their faith " and to make arrangements for its printing.

On January 1, 1643, by unanimous vote, Dedham authorized the first taxpayer-funded public school, " the seed of American education.

In January 1991, the Assembly passed by unanimous vote a law governing the legalization of opposition parties.

A law was passed 11 October 2006 by a unanimous vote with only 138 of 275 representatives present, with the remaining representatives boycotting the vote.

This problem mainly stemmed from the fact that the primary members of the League of Nations were not willing to accept the possibility of their fate being decided by other countries, and by enforcing unanimous voting had effectively given themselves veto power.

He pointed out that the League of Nations could do nothing to alter their arrangements, since the League could only act by unanimous consent of its members-including the UK and France.

This plan won the unanimous approval of the Security Council through SC Resolution 1495, and was unexpectedly accepted by the Polisario.

In 1941, the faculty illustrated its distaste with Kaplan by penning a unanimous letter to the professor of homiletics, expressing complete disgust with Kaplan's The New Haggadah for the Passover Seder.

The Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors.

The Silver T-Square is awarded, by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors, to persons who have demonstrated outstanding dedication or service to the Society or the profession.

With Spanish and French cardinals in a deadlock, the absent Adrian was proposed as a compromise and on 9 January 1522 he was elected by an almost unanimous vote.

According to his biographer in the Liber Pontificalis, Innocent was the son of a man called Innocens of Albano, but according to his contemporary Jerome, his father was Pope Anastasius I ( 399 – 401 ), whom he was called by the unanimous voice of the clergy and laity to succeed ( he had been born before his father's entry to the clergy ).

* The Supreme Court of the Philippines, through a unanimous opinion penned in 2005 by Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, quoted The Moving Finger when it ruled that the widow of defeated presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr. could not substitute her late husband in his pending election protest against Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, thus leading to the dismissal of the protest.

In July 2003 the Governor General of Solomon Islands issued an official request for international help, which was subsequently endorsed by a unanimous vote of the parliament.

Additionally, if the envoys were unable to reach a unanimous decision within six weeks ( the time limit of a single session ), deliberations were declared void and all previous acts passed by that Sejm were annulled.

On November 15, Jake Peavy won the National League Cy Young Award by unanimous ballot.

Their agreed to formula was, “ Done in Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present .” George Washington noted in his diary that night, the proposal was agreed to by eleven state delegations and the lone Mr. Hamilton for New York.