Q: Hung jury, can the judge find you guilty if your jury was dead locked?
Reading through my transcripts a friend asked if it was a jury trial? I said yea. Then he says I had a hung jury. He also tells me they should of dropped the charges. How did they convict me if my jury was deadlocked? Can a judge go ahead and find me guilty when this happens? There's so much that's wrong with my trial. If a judge can't because it was a jury trial. what should I do?
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more info needed
i do not know how that could happen
the best person to ask who would know all the facts is your lawyer.
what does he or she say..............
A: File an appeal. However, it is so remote as to be an impossibility that a judge convicted you when the jury was deadlocked. Without having looked at your file, I would say that it is far more likely that there was a hung jury on one or more counts, and a guilty verdict on one or more counts. However, your attorney would have the actual facts.
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