Neither double jeopardy nor fundamental fairness prohibits retrial of a defendant after a mistrial caused by juror deadlock on the charge of purposeful or knowing murder, the state Supreme Court ruled last Tuesday.
The justices declined to interpret the jury’s lack of unanimity on the murder charge as a determination that he did not commit murder “by his own conduct” � the test for whether a defendant should face a death-penalty trial.
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