Judges prodding divided jurors to reach a verdict do not necessarily have to tell them to follow their consciences, according to a federal appeals court.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to adopt a hard-and-fast rule on the words a judge should use when giving a potentially deadlocked jury a so-called “modified” Allen charge.
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