Ten reasonable men

American Criminal Law Review

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 179-

  Menard Jr , Richard H ^a  

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1. See Paula L. Hannaford et al., How Much Justice Hangs in the Balance?, 83 JUDICATURE 59, 65 (1999) (reporting 6.2% average hung jury rate for several large urban state courts); HARRY KALVEN, JR. & HANS ZEISEL, THE AMERICAN JURY 453, 508-09 (1966) (reporting 5.5% average hung jury rate for state courts). Apparently there has not yet been a major study devoted exclusively to hung jury rates. What information does exist is based mostly on interviews with judges and inferences from relatively small data samples. The National Center for State Courts is in the process of preparing a comprehensive study of hung juries. See Hannaford, supra, at 62-63. Five percent is an average. Hung jury rates vary dramatically from one jurisdiction to another, ranging from close to O to 15 or even 20 percent. It is probably worth noting that higher frequencies tend to be found in areas with higher than average crime rates, particularly Los Angeles and the District of Columbia, but the numbers are sketchy. See generally Jeffrey Rosen, After 'One Angry Woman ', 1998 U. CHI. LEGAL F. 179.
2. See Paula L. Hannaford et al., How Much Justice Hangs in the Balance?, 83 JUDICATURE 59, 65 (1999) (reporting 6.2% average hung jury rate for several large urban state courts); HARRY KALVEN, JR. & HANS ZEISEL, THE AMERICAN JURY 453, 508-09 (1966) (reporting 5.5% average hung jury rate for state courts). Apparently there has not yet been a major study devoted exclusively to hung jury rates. What information does exist is based mostly on interviews with judges and inferences from relatively small data samples. The National Center for State Courts is in the process of preparing a comprehensive study of hung juries. See Hannaford, supra, at 62-63. Five percent is an average. Hung jury rates vary dramatically from one jurisdiction to another, ranging from close to O to 15 or even 20 percent. It is probably worth noting that higher frequencies tend to be found in areas with higher than average crime rates, particularly Los Angeles and the District of Columbia, but the numbers are sketchy. See generally Jeffrey Rosen, After 'One Angry Woman ', 1998 U. CHI. LEGAL F. 179.
3. See Paula L. Hannaford et al., How Much Justice Hangs in the Balance?, 83 JUDICATURE 59, 65 (1999) (reporting 6.2% average hung jury rate for several large urban state courts); HARRY KALVEN, JR. & HANS ZEISEL, THE AMERICAN JURY 453, 508-09 (1966) (reporting 5.5% average hung jury rate for state courts). Apparently there has not yet been a major study devoted exclusively to hung jury rates. What information does exist is based mostly on interviews with judges and inferences from relatively small data samples. The National Center for State Courts is in the process of preparing a comprehensive study of hung juries. See Hannaford, supra, at 62-63. Five percent is an average. Hung jury rates vary dramatically from one jurisdiction to another, ranging from close to O to 15 or even 20 percent. It is probably worth noting that higher frequencies tend to be found in areas with higher than average crime rates, particularly Los Angeles and the District of Columbia, but the numbers are sketchy. See generally Jeffrey Rosen, After 'One Angry Woman ', 1998 U. CHI. LEGAL F. 179.
4. See Paula L. Hannaford et al., How Much Justice Hangs in the Balance?, 83 JUDICATURE 59, 65 (1999) (reporting 6.2% average hung jury rate for several large urban state courts); HARRY KALVEN, JR. & HANS ZEISEL, THE AMERICAN JURY 453, 508-09 (1966) (reporting 5.5% average hung jury rate for state courts). Apparently there has not yet been a major study devoted exclusively to hung jury rates. What information does exist is based mostly on interviews with judges and inferences from relatively small data samples. The National Center for State Courts is in the process of preparing a comprehensive study of hung juries. See Hannaford, supra, at 62-63. Five percent is an average. Hung jury rates vary dramatically from one jurisdiction to another, ranging from close to O to 15 or even 20 percent. It is probably worth noting that higher frequencies tend to be found in areas with higher than average crime rates, particularly Los Angeles and the District of Columbia, but the numbers are sketchy. See generally Jeffrey Rosen, After 'One Angry Woman ', 1998 U. CHI. LEGAL F. 179.
5. See, e.g., Reynolds Holding, Verdict Comes in on "Trend" Toward Hung Juries, S.F. CHRON., Dec. 26, 1999, at 5 (describing "perceived growing problem of hung juries" as "mythical" because hung jury rates "have changed little over the past few decades"); Roger Parloff, Race and Juries: If It Ain't Broke . . ., AM. LAW., June 1997, at 5, 72 (arguing that the 13 percent hung jury rate in Los Angeles is not cause for concern because the rates "have not risen one iota in more than a decade").
6. See, e.g., Reynolds Holding, Verdict Comes in on "Trend" Toward Hung Juries, S.F. CHRON., Dec. 26, 1999, at 5 (describing "perceived growing problem of hung juries" as "mythical" because hung jury rates "have changed little over the past few decades"); Roger Parloff, Race and Juries: If It Ain't Broke . . ., AM. LAW., June 1997, at 5, 72 (arguing that the 13 percent hung jury rate in Los Angeles is not cause for concern because the rates "have not risen one iota in more than a decade").