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Originally Posted by honeychile
I'm not an attorney, but shouldn't they have had a mistrial if they felt that way? I'm not asking this to be cute, but if they felt CA was guilty, but didn't feel that they could vote guilty, isn't a mistrial the way to go?
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What PIKA said. Just because they 'feel' guilty doesn't mean they agreed that there wasn't reasonable doubt. And obviously they thought that there was.
Besides a 'hung' jury, a mistrial would require some sort of tampering or impropriety with the jury, AFAIK.
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