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Colorado justices, 4-2, say defendant cannot be retried after judge rejected jury’s partial acquittal
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If a jury clearly indicates that it has acquitted a defendant of certain charges while remaining deadlocked on others, judges must accept that partial acquittal verdict, a divided Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Justice William W. Hood III, in the June 8 majority opinion, acknowledged that judges ordinarily may not ask a deadlocked jury…
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Boulder County judge potentially coerced verdict, appeals court finds in reversing convictions
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A Boulder County judge potentially coerced jurors into a verdict when she directed them to keep deliberating even though they were at an impasse, Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last month. When a jury indicates it is deadlocked, judges may advise jurors, in what is known as a “modified-Allen” instruction, to “reexamine your own views” and…