(1) A jury in a criminal action may render a verdict of guilty only by unanimous agreement.
(2) A jury in a criminal action may render a verdict of not guilty only by a concurrence of at least 10 of 12 jurors.
ORS 136.450
Known as the Uniform Act
The act spans §§ 136–136 (149 sections).
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case 140 S. Ct. 1390 - Ramos v. Louisiana (2020)
Most recently applied in Richards v. Brown (December 2025)
Formerly 136.610; 1997 c.313 §25; 2019 c.635 §8; 2021 c.478 §11
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.