Ex Parte Morris’s Empirical Analysis

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20 state decisions

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1. “after two announcements of a deadlock, eventially a verdict, and then a poll of the jurors in which one juror repudiated the verdict—the trial judge directed the jury to resume deliberations and announced that he would be back by five o'clock that afternoon. The Morris court determined that the judge's final comment `clearly put within the minds of the jurors a deadline for returning with a unanimous verdict.' at 1183.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mahan v. State · 477 So. 2d 522 - Channell v. State

2. ““Indeed, ‘[i]t is quite clear that under Alabama law a trial judge may urge a jury to resume deliberations and cultivate a spirit of harmony so as to reach a verdict, as long as the court does not suggest which way the verdict should be returned and no duress or coercion is used.’ Showers v. State, 407 So.2d 169, 171 (Ala.1981).””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Freeman v. State · 645 So. 2d 363 - Miller v. State

3. “at 1183, it found no error up to the point at which — after two announcements of a deadlock, eventually a verdict, and then a poll of the jurors in which one juror repudiated the verdict — the *Page 531 trial judge directed the jury to resume deliberations and announced that he would be back by 5:00 that afternoon. The Morris court determined that the judge's final comment”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 477 So. 2d 522 - Channell v. State · 516 So. 2d 907 - McGilberry v. State