It is rarer still for the Court to reach unanimity on a first-amendment controversy that touches on abortion.
Under American law, its members are required to reach unanimity on each count — majority verdicts don't cut it.
Judge Sarmina did neither, instead instructing the jury to go back to work and offering to reread any testimony that jurors felt would allow them to reach unanimity.
No prosecutor in the state has ever asked a judge to compel the jury to reach unanimity, said Kevin M. Doyle, the state's capital defender.
That was all it took to persuade the World's Fair Commission to reach unanimity in awarding the plum to Robert Moses's posse from New York.
"I expect, actually, it will be a resolution that we're able to reach unanimity on, given the import of the issue … the negotiations are going on, but I think they're going comparatively well".
But the jury could not reach unanimity on another aggravating factor advanced by the government, that Mr. al-'Owhali, if sentenced to life imprisonment, would present a serious and continuing threat to prison guards.
Not all states are on board with the plan.After months of stalemate in the Council of Ministers over failure to reach unanimity, a compromise proposal put forth in the past few days would allow some EU members to move ahead with adoption of common divorce legislation if they choose, while others would not.
It handed down an acquittal on the obstruction charge and failed to reach unanimity on two charges of contempt.A delighted Mrs McDougal declared that she had enjoyed the trial, which had given her an opportunity "to tell the world what kind of man Ken Starr is".
The defendant, Dennis Alvarez-Hernandez, 24, hung his head as the jury forewoman announced that after a day of deliberations, the panel of eight women and four men had failed to reach unanimity on either the death penalty or a sentence of life in prison without parole.
