Sentence examples for refusing to deliberate from inspiring English sources

"This juror is refusing to deliberate, to engage in dialogue with the others.

But during deliberations, the foreman sent the judge, Robert P. Patterson, a note that one juror had tried to barter his vote and was refusing to deliberate.

The case appears to be at an impasse because of a rare face-off in which one juror, according to notes from the jury room, is holding out for acquittal on all 32 criminal charges and refusing to deliberate "in good faith," while the other 11 say they want to continue debating each charge on its own merits.

It took more than two weeks of deliberation and the replacement of two jurors; one fell ill, another refused to deliberate because of a falling out with other jurors.

The trial of former State Senator Pedro Espada Jr., who was accused of embezzlement, ground to a halt as one juror refused to deliberate.

During the negotiations leading to the Peace of Westphalia (1648), he refused to deliberate with the Protestant heretics and urged the Catholic princes not to sacrifice the rights of the church.

Mr. Savitt, the New York lawyer who described the narcotics case last month, said he decided not to push for a mistrial when the foreman wrote that one juror refused to deliberate.

About 9 p.m. Tuesday, Justice Patricia M. DiMango of State Supreme Court in Brooklyn announced that the jury was hopelessly deadlocked in the case of Keith Phoenix, because one person on the panel refused to deliberate any further.

Judge Block said that case law allowed for the dismissal of a juror who would not participate in deliberations, but he said that there was a fine line between "someone who refuses to deliberate, which can be cause for dismissal, and somebody who has deliberated and doesn't agree with everybody else".

They sent out a furious and misspelled note to Justice Phylis Skloot Bamberger of State Supreme Court, complaining that one juror refused to deliberate, another could not face the defendant's mother and a third "feels that no one should be enconserated no matter what the charge".

Ashe worked his way back into the set by refusing to choke and never wavering: "Deliberate and careful," Tupper wrote, "Ashe stuck to the battle plan".