The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.

The jury, which was locked up in a motel overnight, was canvassed at the request of Walker after the verdict was announced.

-- The FBI yesterday arrested on a perjury charge one of the members of the jury that failed to reach a verdict in the `` Freedom Rider '' bus burning trial four weeks ago.

A mistrial was declared in the case against the other seven when the jury was unable to agree on a verdict.

And due to the double jeopardy principle, the state or prosecution may never appeal a jury or bench verdict of acquittal.

In March, 2010 a jury returned a verdict finding that Novell, not the SCO Group, owns the rights to Unix.

The jury reached its verdict through evaluating common local knowledge, not necessarily through the presentation of evidence, a distinguishing factor from today's civil and criminal court systems.

The clause prevents the newspapers and media from publishing material that is too extreme or sensationalist about a criminal case until the trial is over and the jury has given its verdict.

The government is not permitted to appeal or try again after the entry of an acquittal, whether a directed verdict before the case is submitted to the jury, a directed verdict after a deadlocked jury, an appellate reversal for sufficiency ( except by direct appeal to a higher appellate court ), or an " implied acquittal " via conviction of a lesser included offence.

This principle does not prevent the government from appealing a pre-trial motion to dismiss or other non-merits dismissal, or a directed verdict after a jury conviction, nor does it prevent the trial judge from entertaining a motion for reconsideration of a directed verdict, if the jurisdiction has so provided by rule or statute.

However the jury was unable to reach a verdict.

A jury was unable to reach a verdict.

The jury instructions provide something of a flow chart on what verdict jurors should deliver based on what they determine to be true.

In the event the jury is split six to six, and Athena dicates that in such a case the verdict should henceforth be for acquittal.

Typically, the jury only judges guilt or a verdict of not guilty, but the actual penalty is set by the judge.

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.

This has been changed so that, if the jury fails to agree after a given period, at the discretion of the judge they may reach a verdict by a 10-2 majority.

In civil cases a special verdict can be given, but in criminal cases a general verdict is rendered, because requiring a special verdict could apply pressure to the jury, and because of the jury's historic function of tempering rules of law by common sense brought to bear upon the facts of a specific case.

-- A jury of seven men and five women found 21-year-old Richard Pohl guilty of manslaughter yesterday in the bludgeon slaying of Mrs. Anna Hengesbach.

Under the Alford plea, the defendant admits that sufficient evidence exists with which the prosecution could likely convince a judge or jury to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

The defendant had to have pleaded not guilty, and the jury did not instead recommend a life sentence.

On 13 December 2010, Mark Weston became the first person to be retried and found guilty of murder by a jury ( Dunlop having confessed ).

Under Texas law, the death penalty can only be issued if the jury is convinced that the defendant is not only guilty, but will commit further violent crimes in the future if he is not put to death.

* 1935 – A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.

His defence was in vain ; his arguments were rebuked by Coke and Northumberland, and along with his seven co-conspirators, he was found guilty by the jury of high treason.

When trial by jury replaced this, the jury members were expected to find the insane guilty but then refer the case to the King for a Royal Pardon.

During his trial, nine witnesses testified to the fact that he was insane, and the jury acquitted him, finding him " not guilty by reason of insanity.

In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in Charlotte, the jury found him guilty on all 24 counts, and Judge Robert Potter sentenced him to 45 years in federal prison and a $ 500, 000 fine.

An interesting innovation was introduced in Russia in the judicial reform of Alexander II: unlike in modern jury trials, jurors decided not only whether the defendant was guilty or not guilty, but they had the third choice: " Guilty, but not to be punished ", since Alexander II believed that justice without morality is wrong.

Others contend that there never was a golden age of jury trials, but rather that juries in the early nineteenth century ( before the rise of plea bargaining ) were " unwitting and reflexive, generally wasteful of public resources and, because of the absence of trained professionals, little more than slow guilty pleas themselves ," and that the guilty-plea system that emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century was a superior, more cost-effective method of achieving fair outcomes.

Depending upon the state, a jury must be unanimous for either a guilty or not guilty decision.

v. U. S. 156 U. S. 51 ( 1895 ), generally considered the pivotal case concerning the rights and powers of the jury, declared: " It is our deep and settled conviction, confirmed by a re-examination of the authorities that the jury, upon the general issue of guilty or not guilty in a criminal case, have the right, as well as the power, to decide, according to their own judgment and consciences, all questions, whether of law or of fact, involved in that issue.

The jury found Standard Oil guilty on all 1, 903 counts.

" A UK newspaper reported the case of a self-taught gunsmith named Grant Wilkinson, who " was ordered to serve a minimum term of 11 years after a jury found him guilty of running a gun factory supplying lethal Mac-10 weapons to criminals, mainly in London ".

* 1964 – A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.

In Norman times insanity was not seen as a defence in itself but a special circumstance in which the jury would deliver a guilty verdict and refer the defendant to the King for a pardon

Medical experts unanimously agreed that a wartime gunshot wound to the head was likely making Konowal mentally unstable ; the jury agreed and he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Major subsequent developments include forbidding the death penalty for rape ( Coker v. Georgia ), restricting the death penalty in cases of felony murder ( Enmund v. Florida ), exempting the mentally handicapped ( Atkins v. Virginia ) and juvenile murderers ( Roper v. Simmons ) from the death penalty, removing virtually all limitations on the presentation of mitigating evidence ( Lockett v. Ohio, Holmes v. South Carolina ), requiring precision in the definition of aggravating factors ( Godfrey v. Georgia, Walton v. Arizona ), and requiring the jury to decide whether aggravating factors have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt ( Ring v. Arizona ).

Though Nelson's lawyer James Herbert Stitt attempted to portray Nelson as mentally ill and therefore not responsible for his crimes, the jury found Nelson guilty of the Winnipeg slaying of Emily Patterson, found strangled underneath her own bed by her husband who had knelt by the bed to pray for her safe return after finding her missing on the afternoon of June 9.

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Although Atkins's case and ruling may have saved other mentally retarded inmates from the death penalty, a jury in Virginia decided in July 2005 that Atkins was intelligent enough to be executed on the basis that the constant contact he had with his lawyers had intellectually stimulated him and raised his IQ above 70, making him competent to be put to death under Virginia law.

The insanity defense was thrown out, and on February 25, 1997, a jury found him guilty of third degree murder but mentally ill.

In 2004, a Manhattan jury determined that Rakowitz was no longer dangerous, but was still mentally ill enough to require inpatient care.