Ogundipe v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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1. “(b) Verdict. The verdict of a jury shall be unanimous unless the parties stipulate at any time that a verdict or a finding of a stated majority shall be taken as the verdict or finding of the jury. The verdict shall be returned in open court. On request of a party or on the court’s own initiative, the jury shall be polled before it is discharged. If the poll discloses that the jury, or stated majority, has not concurred in the verdict, the court may direct the jury to retire for further deliberation or may discharge the jury. (c) Verdict containing written findings. The court may require a jury to return a verdict in the form of written findings upon specific issues. For that purpose, the court may use any method of submitting the issues and requiring written findings as it deems appropriate, including the submission of written questions susceptible of brief answers or of written forms of the several special findings that might properly be made under the pleadings and evidence. The court shall instruct the jury as may be necessary to enable it to make its findings upon each issue____”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 205 Md. App. 413 - Hastings v. Turner

2. “the verdict sheet itself is a tool for the jury to utilize in deciding its verdict but it does not constitute the verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 236 Md. App. 57 - Alford v. State