Sentence examples for declare a deadlock from inspiring English sources
The decision to declare a deadlock took Roche by surprise.
Russia's foreign minister declared a deadlock on Saturday in the latest efforts to resolve the Syrian crisis, blaming the Syrian opposition for refusing to negotiate with the government and reiterating that Moscow will not force President Bashar Assad to leave.
If a jury is deadlocked, the courts declare a mistrial -- send the jury home -- and start over with a new one.
The jury came back in a deadlock for a second time, prompting the judge to declare a mistrial on the case.
A lack of criminal intent -- in the eyes of one juror in the Tyco case, anyway -- led to a deadlock in the jury room, resulting in publicity that indirectly caused the presiding judge to declare a mistrial.
(Bloomberg News) Mistrial in Case of Former Duke Energy Executive A judge declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked on the remaining charges against a former trading executive of the Duke Energy Corporation who was accused of recording false trading data to increase bonuses for himself and others at the company, a power and natural-gas producer.
At issue is an order of Superior Court Judge Linda G. Baxter that forbade reporters to disclose the jurors' names, something that worked until the jury reached a deadlock and Judge Baxter declared a mistrial.
The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said that Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway declared a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked.
The jury deadlocked and the judge declared a mistrial.
When they were still deadlocked on Friday, he declared a mistrial.
