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Jury Discharged Without Verdict In Minnesota
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(a) All automatic excuses or disqualifications from jury service are eliminated except as provided in Rule 808. (2) they request to be excused because their service would be a continuing hardship to them or to members of the public and they are excused for this reason by the jury commissioner.
“A jury has a power of lenity and can bring in a not guilty verdict in the teeth of the facts.” In its full form, we call the power: jury nullification. It's the power of the jury to veto unjust laws. Juries have had this power since the beginning of the United States.
A person does not qualify to serve if the person is any of the following: under a sentence for a felony conviction; a former juror who served on a state or federal grand or petit jury in the past four years; or a judge serving in the judicial branch.
Don't lose your temper, try to bully, or refuse to listen to the opinions of other jurors. Don't mark or write on exhibits or otherwise change or injure them.
If the jury deadlocks, then a mistrial is declared. This means the trial will start all over again from the beginning with a new jury.
What are some of the best excuses people have used when they didn't want to show up for jury duty? You are not fluent in English. You are disabled, evidenced by a physician's attestation. You are hospitalized, again evidenced by a physician's attestation.
A hung jury is a jury that is unable to reach a verdict by the required voting margin. A hung jury will often lead to a retrial of the case. In some cases, the judge may instruct the jury to continue their deliberation, but this is not a common practice.
Jurors receive a summons that tells them to appear at the courthouse for jury service. The length of jury service depends on the county in which a juror lives, but service cannot exceed four months. If you are summoned for service, you will become a member of a jury and take an oath before hearing the case.
To request to be excused from jury service fill out the Jury Information Form, located at the bottom of the summons, or on-line using eJuror. Upon request, the Jury Clerk may excuse the following occupational classes or groups of people from jury service: Persons over 70 years of age.