Defense attorneys and state prosecutors agreed to a do-over Tuesday after three full days of jury deliberations resulted in a deadlocked jury in the murder trial of three white deputies accused of tasing Eurie Martin, an unarmed Black man, to death.

Judge H. Gibbs Flanders Jr., Photo: Billy W. Hobbs/ The Union-Recorder Judge H. Gibbs Flanders Jr., Photo: Billy W. Hobbs/ The Union-Recorder

“The court believes that the jurors have in good faith made an effort to deliberate, to consider the evidence in the case and that despite that effort. … They have been unable to reach a verdict,” said Dublin Judicial Circuit Senior Judge H. Gibbs Flanders Jr., who presided over the case. “At some point, the law recognizes that it moves from a duty and responsibility of a jury to act in good faith, and can transition over a lengthy period of time, to a point where a jury is almost being held hostage in an effort to try to reach unanimity. That is not what our jury system is designed for.”